How is this remotely relevant to the ARM support announced?

You could, but not without sacrificing many of the features that make the Surface Book unique. The pen support in Windows 7 is significantly worse, and face authentication wouldn't work. Windows 7 isn't very usable on a tablet. To use the GPU when you reattached the tablet you'd likely have to reboot the machine, also a much slower operation on Windows 7.

If you don't want the above features, you could get a machine that runs Windows 7 well with good hardware specs for less money.

What's wrong with remote desktop for mobile work? Online work only, but most dev environments require internet anyway.

Doesn’t work for a game developer, or a game asset artist.

For videogames, both latency, bandwidth, and software support ain’t quite there yet.

People are more likely to notice the inability to install traditional Windows apps than what search engine they're using.

Nonsense. I use the virtual floppy drive in VMs all the time, because I'm virtualizing legacy systems. But I do agree it could probably be disabled (and thus unexploitable) by default.

This is a different bug.

Up to 10k in vouchers. I don't even know how someone with a non-travel job would use that many coupons in a year.

You could trivially spend it on a single international holiday if you felt like flying in business or first class...

Actually no, you can't, because they limit how much you can apply to a single flight. To use up $10k in vouchers, it's likely you'd need to make 20-100 flights, before they expired in a year.

Where is this information coming from?

I've received large (not $10k) vouchers from major airlines before, and the only restriction is the expiration date.

They are effectively the same as cash for that airline, and I have yet to see a VDB voucher that is significantly restricted.

Airlines do give away a lot of "good will" certificates during irrops (e.g. weather events) to upset customers, which function more like coupons than traditional vouchers.

I'm happy to be proven wrong, but checking with a few friends who between us fly all the major US carriers - VDB vouchers are effectively airline cash with an expiration date.

Like the other reply you got, I've received a multi-thousand (but not $10k) voucher from United before and the only restriction was use within a year. I also didn't have to use on a single flight, but could use the full value on one flight if I wished (which I did, flew paid business, but was upgraded to first to APAC).

A lot more easily when you realize what a Y-class economy fare costs (Boston to Hawaii next week? $2700+)...

Vouchers are typically only valid for full fare unrestricted economy fares or better, not V-class discount fares (display details when you browse your next flight).

This is simply not true...I've gotten these vouchers and used them and sure as hell wasn't buying y-class tickets.

PCs do not have a standardized BIOS. BIOS configuration options vary widely, and often mean different things between different BIOS vendors. UEFI is standardized but sometimes difficult to adopt.

There is an option to turn them off.

Device drivers run in kernel mode and can bugcheck the machine. Microsoft can certainly provide tooling and help device driver writers write reliable drivers, but the device is still responsible for it's driver.

My understanding is that Windows supports user-mode drivers and Microsoft strongly encourages not writing kernel-mode drivers unless absolutely necessary. If Fitbit did that anyway though then it's definitely their fault.

Yeah exactly I've had Linux drivers cause kernel panics a number of times.

XP support ended years ago.

What is the Win 10 bootmgr code for XP loading counted as?

Backwards compatibility!