Crysis? Forget that... I'm waiting to see how quickly the cards bounce after solitaire, I still remember how slow it was on the 286...

What's with these pointless stats? It's the amount of people affected and the amount of equipment to deal with that causes it to take time - not the size of the country. It'd be like saying it'll take longer to flick off analogue tv in the sahara because it's so big.

Britain is behind in mass conversion to many technologies / areas because it was one of the first to get them in the first place, whilst other countries followed behind.

That and there's a lot of people who don't like things to change.

...yep, networking is pretty much what I think they've got in mind.

I like it... it's actually quite cool, it's more 'fun' than the serious 'I'm a computer not a games console' line that sony having been taking since ps3.

Jeremy stole the words from my mouth. Microsoft is obviously damned if it does and damned if it doesn't. I'm quite sure we'd have seen a post about how annoying Vista was were it set up to block by default.

Looks gorgeous but i dunno about the location of the power button. Methinks me might press it instead of up.