True, this post did a poor job of making my case against Microsoft. My other post in this thread goes into more detail. With regard to power in particular, I'

True, this post did a poor job of making my case against Microsoft. My other post in this thread goes into more detail. With regard to power in particular, I'd argue that the "power button means sleep by default" is a terrible idea. By default, the power button should put the system into a state where it's not drawing an appreciable amount of current. Sure, Asus compounded the problem by not providing the computer with a sleep indicator LED, but Microsoft gets a lot of the blame for pushing the idea that we should suspend rather than power off our computers. I can only imagine that they wanted to mitigate their ludicrously terrible startup times.