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Ladies love Nature, so ladies have to love the Wiz, right?
Right? No? Okay.

Gestures, baby. GESTURES ALL THE WAY. Here we go! Look forward to this!

Reports say he wants to retire when his last kid finishes college, so we’ll see his extreme, uhm, “exuberance” (?) for a couple of more years

You might not think it now, but once you use Windows 8, it sticks with you. I recently updated my PC from Vista Basic (everyone together now: UGH) to Windows 7, and I might do three consecutive updates when the Release Preview drops on my birthday. There’s something about it that makes it “cool.”
On a semi-related note: Nokia Windows 8 tablet with Wacom support, please! That would be the ultimate school notebook, and Windows 8 is primed to be the best tablet device if you want to handwrite notes.

I want to know- was anyone else at that sports bar? I would feel bad if the patron had gone through all that trouble and Paul left. Maybe the rules could be relaxed a little bit more? I don’t know.
I’d like to send Paul a very important gif, so I’m looking forward to the PO box!

I used Drop box, but now that I have 25 gigs in Skydrive, I’ve had my Dropbox and Google Drive in the Skydrive folder. For the unaware, that’s over 30 gigs of storage. So yeah, I’m a cloud storage millionaire. Deal with it.
As for Windows 8, I’ve been thinking of putting the CP back on my PC to try it out again, and if I get Windows 8, I’ll be Skydrive all the way!

This is awesome.

Bing has emphasized social, people based search from day one with actually helpful social integration. At this point, Facebook and Twitter are far more useful and important than Google+ is.

I await the day where I can revel in the inevitable laugh track. Also, the jokes about “Groupon refunds for bad-dates” will totally payoff. Totally.

Hey Ellis (or maybe Tom Warren, if he’s around here) do you know if the once mentioned Bing Instant search is coming anytime soon? I love the Metro design, but the feeling of super efficiency I get when I type in Google Instant is way too gratifying to switch… yet.

I tried the 2 months for 2 dollars promotion (or something like that) but I don’t have enough games to justify paying the money- my only Live game is Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. I just bought the Xbox a couple of months ago and I don’t really use live, and until NHL 2013 comes out, I may just be Live less.

There’s something intangibly cool about mobile NFC payments. Imagine having a beautiful service, something like the 900, a your virtual wallet. Sure, all the jeers that would occur from the, ahem, Windows Phone antagonists would be disheartening, but I would rock that blue beauty everywhere.
*note, from now on I will affectionately refer to the Lumia 900 as a “blue beauty.” Deal with it.

I chose the perfect day to cancel my Xbox Live subscription. : /

Maybe it will be different if Paul arrives on time, but I feel as if Paul’s internet exile is going to hurt the podcast’s efficiency. I love the experiment, don’t get me wrong, but it seems counter intuitive to explain things like the Galaxy S3 to Paul when the viewers presumably know about the news before hand. Can The Verge staff keep Paul up to date on the big news so he knows what he’s talking about or is that violating his own rules? Or maybe Paul could stay in the room and hear Chris as a disembodied voice without seeing the miracle of streaming video. A Skype voice call is just a phone call over the internet, so why intentionally limit Paul over a minor detail?

Good for Samsung on having a powerful phone on every carrier, but why did they have to skimp out on good looking hardware design

I wouldn’t be able, to pay to meet somewhere, but I guess it would be fun for those who could go. Livestream seems easier, but maybe there’s a totally different way I’m forgetting

Whoah there. One, a livestream would involve chat, so yes, there would be interaction between the online viewers and The Verge staff. Two, I’m sure your extreme cynicism and assumptions about my actual life are making you an absolute hit at parties. Come on, tell me you wouldn’t want to see a Sunday night movie with the Verge! It’s just a fun suggestion.