Here's the solution: buy direct from Microsoft Retail (aka the Microsoft Stores). They will take the system, clean up all the crap, and load programs that are actually useful (i.e. Windows Live Essentials and MS Security Essentials).

A part of me had a tiny thread of hope that we would see a Skype app released as part of the consumer preview. :-/

I'm confused, was that question and answer?

They're both #smokedbywindowsphone

HD view requires non-IE browser, so no thanks.

Buy it direct from the Microsoft Store. Only "bloatware" they install is free lifetime antivirus and their Windows Live Essentials suite.

Hello future Windows 8 computer :-)

If only the FCC could investigate why Verizon is refusing to pick up Windows Phones as well...

I'll vote for the Macintosh Book Air because you can dual-boot Windows on it.

Welcome to 2007. Yours truly, my Thinkpad X61.

At first I thought they were praying.

That's how we do it in Mexico. Also the Three Magical Kings are set "far" apart until Epiphany when they join the nativity scene.

You beat me to it!

Confirmed. Tried it on hermancain.com/lgbtrights and hermancain.com/womensissues

I'm a runner, I found out about Myth #3 in a painful way.

Next-generation underfunded education and medical care (on account of defense spending) is unlike anything you've seen before—unless you live in a third-world country.

Just when you thought the Bally Total Fitness and Lap-Band commercials couldn't get more annoying, get ready for: LOSE WEIGHT OR GET BURNED ALIVE! Certainly gives new meaning to burning fat.

Where are you, Windows Phone version?

wish it could have been the one that starts with a "Z"

Anyone remember Microsoft threedegrees?