hummm
Heff - "Im sick of seeing unattended machines (vending machines, ticket machines, product demo booths etc) with input as low as a single-button-keyboard with the BSOD on them." - isn't that down to the developers of the software running it?
I'd rather see my car run on windows than OSX, at least MS tell you their are issues, apple would rather you hit a wall before admitting there's a bug in the steering controls.
I find it funny that you all slam microsoft and now it seems to be even cooler to write a blog or article on what people think microsoft should do. Who cares microsoft product run majority of all businesses in the world and no-one is gonna make a significant dint. MS are going nowhere and will be around in the next 50 years and will buy what they need to get the cash in, in the end Google, Apple and MS will find a way to co-exist happily, I mean if it wasn't for Bills million wouldn't the apple have rotten away buy now?
Of course if I was Microsoft I'd be paying hackers and viral code writers to rip the s*** out of the other OSs and tear giant exploitable holes in google products but I guess they don't play like that.