Well I use Headphones, but not USB onses so I doubt my problem is there.. U got COD4/5 on steam.. there should be a Y is it still so expensive on there thread....
Yea Mycologist sounds cheap. Thats only if u pre order and the price wil go up after release. Clever really. If people pre order an upgrade then other peole are likely to buy the OS at full proce after its released. ''I bet it is some obscure driver issue'' Yer I think it is.. When I got the PC, I used wireless, but then I wanted to bridge my xbox over so I did not have to buy wireless thing. It would Blue screen as soon as I plugged it in! Turned out to be the LAN ports driver. I will try re-installing all the drivers and making sure they are updated. I have got lazy since I got Vista, it did most of the work for me!

I wonder if they'll start writing a kernel from the ground up. If I was them I'd just mask it all using linux, but if it's chrome that they're aiming for, this might be the desktop version of the netbook OS Moblin that they're going for.

Will Google get slapped a class action suit if they don't include other browsers like Firefox or IE? If Microsoft is going to get slapped, let's not be biased.

I really can't believe what i'm hearing! are you old enough to remember the days when there were 2 web browsers - ie and netscape? some web functions worked better with ie, others with netscape. so what did MS do? they bought out netscape, folded all the good the good stuff into ie and then shelved it. they did the same with just about everything else that worked sans-microsoft and folded them all into windows. That's how they got to where they are today.
And you think we should give a tinkers-damn about what's fare in Redmond?
take a hike

Wow, even a typically anti-Microsoft guy like me has to rectify the phenomenally incorrect history lesson there... Microsoft at no time ever owned Netscape. Netscape slowly lost ground to IE because they did not have the massive resources that MS did, even though the Netscape crew were the ones that developed the still-used SSL protocols. They pushed for an investigation of unfair business practices on MS, which resulted in an anti-trust lawsuit over preferential browser treatment, but even that couldn't save them.

Netscape began an open source project called <drum roll please> Mozilla, around the time they were bought out by AOL, who really did nothing to push advances in the Netscape platform. Netscape's browser died of attrition and stagnation, not because MS shelved it. If MS had truly been involved as you initially indicated, I wouldn't be typing this in Firefox right now.

When Apple moved to the Intel platform for its Macs, I thought for SURE they'd finally release a version of the MacOS... an already tested and established OS with huge support base... that would run on any Intel based PC.

I have no clue why they never did. Software is MUCH cheaper to develop & sell than hardware with a MUCH higher profit margin.

Various flavors of Linux have been around for years, and I keep a partition with Ubuntu on it for those rare times disaster strikes my Windows setup. But as good as Ubuntu is, it just doesn't match the ease of use of Windows (still using XP with no intention of moving anytime soon.)

There's several reasons why this never happened. The primary reason is that Apple likes its elite niche, and is a hardware OEM first and foremost. The OS and software products they develop are basically intended to make the users of their proprietary hardware happy, and maybe sell more hardware. If they drop an OS on the general computing public, there is no push to sell their hardware if it works fine on a standard PC, and it just massively increases their support structure that has to be in place - remember, they control the hardware on their stuff, but the PC market is a wild hodge-podge of infinitely variable hardware combinations, making support exponentially more difficult in many cases.

Apple has figured out its niche, its roll in the market, and is happy with it. They are the cool crowd, with strong stable hardware products and the occasional "wow" factor, and they make plenty of money doing waht they do. To try to throw their hat into the ring directly against Windows would just defeat their strategy.