That's a pretty ignorant statement.

Our institution backgrades to XP. We are an educational institution and can't support a teaching environment with two versions of Window, much of our hardware can't run Vista adequately so as we replace older equipment we have to keep XP until all the hardware is Vista capable. We will then look at rolling it out but there will still be consideration in terms of legacy systems that may prevent that. For example, our JD Edwards finance system is yet to even be able to support IE 7 and we have to have IE 6 installed... Our student management system still requires Acrobat 5. We aren't in a position to either force the applications' publishers to update then or to be able to do without them, therefore we run app and OS versions that don't break core systems.

To say that institutions in our circumstances are pussies that can't adapt is total BS.

What dreamer thought MS would bring out a product early...?

Banning Miles has my vote and I'm a Mac user. He's the sort of moron that promotes fanboyizm to the benefit of no one.

And when Apple rolls out the first (and probably every subsequent) update through iTunes you can kiss all that work goodbye.

@humpty - These aren't "holes" in the sense that you mean them, as a means for infecting the iPhone with viruses and malware, since the user has to be heavily involved in installing the "app".

If these PS/3 figures are right (710,000 units) and the X Box 360 figures of 700,000 quoted here (http://www.macobserver.com/article/2007/07/26.7.shtml) are right then the PS/3 is now out selling the 360... Perhaps the tide is turning as far as the 360 vs PS/3 battle goes. Maybe Sony's strategy of keeping selling the PS/2 profitably to support the PS/3 financially has worked.

It appears to have a wired keyboard... hmmm, less tahn useful I would have thought.

Interesting definition of success: selling each product at a loss and contributing billions of dollars of red to the parent compnay...

I wonder if this is MS's sneaky way to boost its sales figures - count the replacement units used to replace the ones that can't be repaired...

The above comments just go to show people's tastes vary. I like the iPhone design and I find this one pretty attractive too.

As for diamond shape keyboard - BS, it is a conventional grid of buttons, the buttons are just triangular with alternating orientation. No diamonds. Who knows, this approach may actually assist users in identifying which key they are pressing.

Some will like it, some won't.

I will because I'm currently the sort of user who holds the phone in one hand, types with the other and relies on predictive text. I "text like this" and anyone can understand it.

My 14 year old won't. She's the sort who types with predictive text off, using the thumb that she holds the phone with, getting tactile feedback of the number of times she pushes the key to know which letter she has selected. She "txts lk ths" and is faster than I am but understanding of her messages by anyone not part of the texting generation is difficult.

As for Blackberry type devices, I'm not so sure that tactile feed back is as important as it would be for my daughter and that such users wouldn't adapt but then I haven't used one so really I can't comment. (Unlike all the knockers who feel they can make definitive statements without having tried the iPhone.)