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Listed below are comments made by Snaggers between Thursday, 15th January 2009 and Friday, 30th October 2009.

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Weekly Bonus Question 11:56am on 30 Oct 2009 What did Queen Elizabeth affectionately call Sir Walter when he brought back potatoes from the Americas... You
Weekly Bonus Question 11:55am on 30 Oct 2009 What did Andy Murray avoid to become world number 2?
24 hours with Ubuntu 1:45pm on 23 Oct 2009 Rory, you're a brave man, but this is part of your job.

I'm a PC user, mainly as I'm a developer in all products MS. It's what keeps the roof over my head.

I appreciate that there are other OS's yadda yadda yadda, but what a lot of non PC users have to appreciate is that, yes, Ubuntu / Mac etc may be very nice, but if you spend 9-5 every day in a PC environment, then it makes sense to do the same at home, familiarity is the key to any OS. Hence why MS don't do too radical a change, as their users wouldn't like it.

Apple is a hardware company, that licenses OS. MS is a company that provides OSs / software to hardware companies.

Dell etc chose not to try to sell too many Ubuntu based systems, as the market share is tiny, and it's easier to sell a pc to a non linux favoured person. Mac users, will always buy Mac... hey, I'm tempted to, as they look good in the living room (if only it had dlna)... etc.. (brother is a graphic designer, only uses Mac's and they are nice bits of kit, but then so is my Vaio)

If people want Linux etc, they already know about it and will go and buy a pc, format etc and install.

Mum's and Dad's buying home pc's will get whatever suits them, their childs schools etc. MS was first to market, and thats how it goes sometimes. Horses for courses etc

But in the undeveloped world, if google can make Android a small foot print etc, and get Intel to install it on the One laptop per child pc's then in a generation we may see change.

Nice column generally.

Td
Weekly Bonus Question 1:29pm on 23 Oct 2009 In the 21st Century before the recession, how was the first decaded described?
Review of the week 2:05pm on 09 Oct 2009 Surely, the butchers dog is fit, as it has to be so the butcher doesn't catch it to slaughter / sell it... (back in days when meat was scarce)
Weekly Bonus Question 10:47am on 07 Aug 2009 How did my wife describe this years birthday presents which I had bought from the local garage just moments before?
Newsnight caption challenge 5:35pm on 29 Apr 2009 Father's for Justice attempts to recruit President Obama wasn't a goer
We've lent £185bn to banks 4:17pm on 03 Feb 2009 Here's an idea then, if the value of the loan has (on paper) depreciated by 45bn and it's still in paper credit of 57bn. If we all started to re-mortgage / purchase new houses etc, then the house price market would increase (supply v demand), therefore raising the value of the assets held. So we can get ourselves out of the future "tax" hole. Sounds like a plan... who wants to join me...
Stig, unmasked 3:57pm on 29 Jan 2009 As a long time acquaintance of the Stig (we have our own secret sect), I never thought I'd see the day when he removed that shiny helmet.

Next he'll be telling you he was the "woman" with odd shoes featured in 10 things last year...
Caption Competition 2:53pm on 15 Jan 2009 I'm literally beside myself...

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