I will not be getting a surface. I took a borrowed one home to show my wife, she hated it. She wanted the interface switched around since she's left handed, charms on the left and swipe right for more pages, I couldn't figure out how to do it, but I didn't look that hard.
I'm also forbidden from installing Windows 8 on her laptop and the games machine.
Personally I don't like how I need to be connected to the cloud all the time to do anything.
Very commonly used in New Zealand, its used on TV with no problems, heres the iconic Toyota ad using the word bugger to good effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKY_OysWu3k
I'd be scared of it automatically downloading inappropriate or even worse illegal stuff from the search results. Try explaining to the boss you did not visit that nsfw site but it merely turned up in your search results.
This is a good point. It's not just the "used in a court of law" or "national security" instances where this is dangerous. Corporations don't have to follow any formal legal process. If you're using a proxy or they're otherwise monitoring outbound traffic and you have this feature turned on, it will look like you are visiting inappropriate sites.
That makes sense,
However there must be some killer feature that makes them superior to the x64 architecture. Could it be memory architecture? Power efficiency? How would you explain to a PHB the advantages it gives you over x64?
Sorry, I think that probably came off as more snippy than I would have liked. The legacy thing is pretty important. It is the only real upgrade path for HP/UX (or for that matter OpenVMS). So, most of the decision is based on conversion and upgrade paths. It has turned into a big iron processor like SPARC and POWER. You can certainly put a lot of them in a machine and people spent money building the systems, but I am not sure what a salesman would tell me the advantage is.
I was definitely surprised to see an active web ring.