Finally somebody pay attention on the stupid idea. It duplicates existing functionality - agree! Combined with cognitive distraction - agree!!

I see Windows blue taskbar on the photo. HOW ITS POSSIBLE TO RUN SUCH IMPORTANT SYSTEM ON THE FG WINDOWS???????

Answer me please!

I hate to break this to you, but airplane systems, medical systems, banking systems, fuel pump systems and a lot of other systems all run on Windows.

Windows should NEVER be used in anything mission critical.

Windows programmers and their 'Just reboot the machine' mindset should NEVER be allowed anywhere near a mission critical application.

Why? Here is your answer, straight from the original article:

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... Intergraph keeps telling us, “Shut your computer down and reboot. It’ll just take a minute.”

How many lives can you lose in a minute? ...

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Nonsense. This has nothing to do with Windows and everything to do with poorly-implemented software running on it.

I have seen Java-based systems running on Linux that stall/hang and run agonizingly slowly under what should not be demanding levels of use. Bloated, heavyweight software stacks exist on all platforms, and they are favorites in government contractor architectures.

Now why they wonder of these problems? I'm old Unix user btw.

That's why I switch on iCloud mail!

I don't like that Google killing some great technologies, like Reader or push-email for iPhone (especially last one). I was Gmail user for a long time, but switch on iCloud recently, because i'm looking something fresh and easy-to-use and still want to have push in my iPhone.

iCloud mail interface not just "pretty", but simpler and especially settings. So, after iCloud Gmail looks very cheap, if you don't use iCloud, you should to try.

I'm alone hate new design? Why? Too much dark colors (especially menu) and frustrated navigation, probably because I have habits about old design, now everything looks too much different.

Than next image button (when you'r not zoomed in) looks like it's ajax, but it's not.

I loved Flickr for easy to use light design, I don't care about 1TB, too much because I don't want to share so much on the Internet. So new Flick is lost me as a customer.

I want to see iPhone version of Hacker News. It's not hard to create, and most of links that shares here already iPhone-friendly.