cmsonger

Yes. It's not just that he's got a somewhat unpopular set of policy positions; it's that his broad brush stroke rhetoric is often at odds with his specific policy. (Against big government, but for traditional marriage and abortion bans.)

That's exactly the kind of primary challenge that is: moving the republican party to the right, making their candidates unelectable, and keeping the US from being governed effectively.

Who knows, maybe he will win. When the republicans move far enough right in Texas, they will eventually turn the state blue.

I bet a thoughtful and consistent libertarian candidate would do pretty well here, but this gentleman does not seem to be it. I've never seen an AMA where so many of the person's comments went negative.

You seem really enthused about 8. As a person who's used it a lot, I think that MS has missed the mark in this first rev and consumers as well as device makers seem to agree with me.

IMO: the biggest mistake was getting rid of the start menu in desktop mode. RT/new UI seem an OK attempt to compete with Apple/Android. Yes, the RT SDK is kind of lame and has lots of weird omissions and warts, but it's v1; that will get better.

The problem is that MS trained people for years and years to use a start menu; and the idea that coupling the "we really want people to like our tablet UI" with "we should get rid of the start menu that people have been using in our highest volume market" was a horrible idea -- made worse by how appalling it is to use the new UI without touch.

Still, MS iterates fast. Good luck working on the next version. Maybe you guys can pull it out of the fire before Android and iOS tablets eat into notebook/license sales to cause the whole thing to implode. That would be a loss, MS does some good stuff.

Have you realized that the radical internet fringe will call for filet Mignon if you do not classify internet access as a utility?

Side question, do you agree internet providing is a natural monoploy?

You've been at IBM over 30 years and IBM has changed a lot in that time. What are the best and worst things about the IBM of today as compared to the IBM you joined?

How real is the danger of explosion?