Day of reckoning: Q1 2009 PC market share figures arrive

@slimshady - The Tea Parties were good...how goes trying to be black? --tayme

@slimshady - That coming from a deacon at the Westboro Baptist Church??? Who'da thunk it? --tayme

@Bobbi Jo - Sorry - I am typing this on a MBP and may go use the G5 iMac soon...guess again. Or are you saying that I chose these Macs due to having bad taste? --tayme

@tayme: But you use Windows. Homeless Frank is smarter than to use Windows.

100th!

I just love it when little Bobbi Jo brings friends along to the party. It makes it that much funner! Thanks, Bobbi and Real!!! --tayme

@mikegalos - You are wrong again. You really should be careful, since you are the official voice of Microsoft on this site. The term was TEA Party. TEA is for Taxed Enough Already. That makes you wrong on several levels. Note the word ENOUGH....that doesn't mean I want a tax cut...But, that is par for the course with you; too arrogant to admit that you are wrong and too scared to give a straight answer when asked a question. You should run off and play with little Bobbi Jo and Real now...You can usually run circles around the kids. Have fun, now. --tayme

I don't really care too much about politics, but why raise taxes on the upper class. I never understood why everyone that isn't upper class looks at them to be snobs and people that don't work hard. The news reports the bad apples and everyone likes to think it applies to everyone. Ya Obama cut taxes, but also increased spending. Bring on the inflation! Oh and good thing our country will be a lot more dependent on the government now. Sounds stupid to me.

hamiltonstallings Oh, and as to increased spending, you may not be aware but if the previous Administration had left the Clinton budget alone and not grown government size over and over again, we'd have $8 Trillion more in the Treasury. We'd be on track to have the national debt paid off in 2012. Instead, they borrowed 8 Trillion dollars over 8 years to cover their spending and tax cuts and increased the national debt to $10,000,000,000,000. That's not only money we and our children and grandchildren have to pay back with interest, it's money not available for home loans and small business loans and that stagnates the economy as the loan pool dries up to cover money needed to pay for government loans rather than for investments. But, hey, they gave most households a $300 annual "gift" to distract them from noticing that the Bush Administration borrowed $27,000 in each member of their family's credit card. FYI: A bit of trivia for you, the size of the government shrank so much during the Clinton years that at the end of the Clinton Administration the US Government was as small as it had been in 1957.

Yaaaarrrggghhhh!!!! Sorry, had to be said.

"At least now that Bush is out of office." Do you actually believe that claptrap? I take that back, I know you believe it. But tell me when people weren't allowed to express their opinion over the last 8 years? The way I see is that rabble rousers like Chris Matthews are still here doing what they do. If what you say was true, we wouldn't have the constant borage of Bush bashing. Heck, the movie W was literally a 90 minute campaign ad for Obama. Yeah, it seemed like the left was really put out. LOL. Conversely, tell me when people say something negative about Lord Obama, where is the mainstream media giving, or trying to give a somewhat balanced report on it? Or is it buried and not mentioned? I"m not worried, nor have been worried about our lack of free speech rights. However, I am worried for the media which should be doing a better job. Their vetting of Obama was like watching a teen girl watching a Britney Spears concert. Hey Chris, that thrill up your leg may be a heart attack, I'd have it check out. "I say tax the crap out of the rich." On the outset, this sounds like a good or great idea. Except, it doesn't account for the long term consequences of such an action. I can almost assume, unless we are all self employed, that some rich person signs your paycheck. Now, imagine if we increase the taxes on the rich to obscene levels. At some point, something has to give. The industry that my company is in is somewhat tied to rich people buying expensive goods and services that they don't necessarily need to survive. My company has already been hit hard. If those "evil" rich people are taxed more, what is going to happen at my company and many others like mine, when their income is squeezed? Well, they will spend less, which doesn't help anyone. And where is there incentive to invest in the economy when/if they know that they are going to be taxed at super high levels? The free market works so well because it gives the people an economic incentive to do a good job and innovate. Conversely, a government controlled/run job gives people no incentive to innovate. Hence, a socialist mecca country like France has 10%+ unemployment in "good" times, and outside of wine, has virtually no industry to speak of. "I can see Obama's tax cut already to the tune of about $60 a month." Wait till cap and trade. Hyperinflation, remember that word.

"I can almost assume, unless we are all self employed, that some rich person signs your paycheck." Oh he is rich with out a doubt, 20mill a year I think is what our CEO gets, maybe less and he does not own the company. Yeah I am sure he is worth more than me, smarter, faster, hung like a horse, dance better, or whatever, but 200 times my pay and then to pay less taxes???? WTF over? Its a very common right wing believe that if you tax a rich company owner less they will create more jobs. I say BS, they will create a few more jobs, as in setup a new department called "out sourcing" so they can cut more costs by out sourcing jobs out of this country and make more money. Middle class republicans have been punked by this and fear tactics for years by the republican party. You ever wonder why the rich business owning republicans never want to get real on closing our border? It would kill their source of cheap labor in this country. I mean if Bush and his crew were so worried about security of this country why did they not lock down our wide open southern border? It would have stopped the flow of cheap labor to his contributors that is why.

slimshady I'll start believing the myth that "the rich will take their tax cuts and create jobs" when they actually support a bill that gives companies a tax break for every additional US job created. Funny how that's seen as "government meddling in business" but just giving them the cash to spend however they want is seen as a "jobs creation" program even when it costs jobs.

Oh, and that should be mantra and not matra in that last post. I wouldn't want to bring in a French aerospace company into the discussion.