It looks to me that Microsoft has added another layer of bureaucracy. At a time when startups are starting to show some real promise again, Microsoft now looks even bigger and potentially slower than it was before.

It's not something I expected from AOL, but it's the right direction at the right time.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

[The job of lawmakers at a time like this is to] make the bureaucracy work for the people we represent, ... I am not a doctor or a trained [emergency services] person. But my job is to make sure those resources are there.

Emulation is slower, sometimes much slower, than applications that run natively.