I liked the comment calling Apple the "Leni Riefenstahl of technology".

I don't recall Microsoft going through techland like Sherman through Georgia or Islam under the First Caliphate.

If you think of Google killing off media's advertising revenue, Apple using the patent system like an anthrax threat, and Facebook holding your nearest and dearest hostage for primo bucks, you realize Microsoft is just quaintly nostalgically corporately evil, not Über-evil. 

(after the suits against Samsung where having soft corners is grounds for a team of billion dollar lawyers - oops, too bad that juror prejudiced the court and it'll all be thrown out - and Apple's mocking court-ordered "apology" in the UK this week, Apple is flushing it's reputation down the Zuckerberg toilet - there's elite and then there's spoiled and petulant, and there's a shark's worth of difference - Tim? Tim Cook? you listening?)

I mean, Steve Ballmer is too much a parody of himself to be scary - he can't even make his revenue targets, more the loudmouthed guy at the BBQ talking Lions vs. Packers.

And well, those surface tabs do look cute as do a few other Win8 devices. After all, no one can really tell if I have an iPhone 4 or iPhone 5 unless I wave it at them, and iPads are so 2011, and the mini is just a wannabe mini-Me oops, I mean here. Mars Needs Women new compelling consumer electronic devices at an attractive price point to show your friends and purchase before Christmas season.