Piskvor's comments

Let me just put my best Admiral Ackbar impersonation on, here: in the light of the recent patent wars, do I see a patent lawsuit in the future? "We kind of gave them a part of our functionality, but we didn't intend it and they're thus infringing on our patents." Yes, this is patently absurd (pardon the pun), but so are 99% of the patent cases out there; but even should it be brought to court and thrown out, it would be good fertilizer for the one core MS competency: FUD (see the current Android patent craziness).

With this in mind, I fear Redmonders bearing gifts.

Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/605/ "As you can see, by late next month you'll have over four dozen husbands. Better get bulk rate on that wedding cake."

IMNSHO, the adoption of IE9 (on new computers with Win7 preinstalled, perhaps?) might make a significant dent in that projection. I've seen a very similar graph (starring Firefox) a few years back; and then IE came back from the dead with version 8.

Desktop users, on the other hand...does anyone still care about desktop users anymore (y'know, the ones with computers), or is HURR DURR MUST HAZ SMARTPHONES UR COMPUTAR ALSO IZ SMARTPHONE the sanest response I could hope for? (Cases in point: Windows 8, Ubuntu, Google Chrome, etc.)

That's, historically, a pretty interesting reversal - I'm pretty sure I went for RSS (back in the dawn of time around 2000) to avoid the flood of e-mail news/newsletters, and for faster notifications (back then). Ah, the Wheel of Life indeed: http://catb.org/jargon/html/W/wheel-of-reincarnation.html

Stinks? Makes you cry? Yay, we're there all right! (sorry, couldn't resist)