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With Android 4.4 KitKat, Google’s biggest blow to Microsoft isn’t against Windows Phone. It’s against Microsoft Office. You see, KitKat ships with Quickoffice, letting you edit Microsoft Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on the go, without paying a dime, straight out of the box. This tidbit was largely lost in the news yesterday, given the large number of improvements and new features that KitKat offers. Yet it’s a very big deal: every Android user that upgrades to KitKat will get Google’s Quickoffice, and every new Android device (starting with the Nexus 5) that ships with KitKat or higher will get...

By Well, it looks like some more fascist roosters are coming home to roost. Apple, Google, and others have tricked the American public into buying a whole bevy of “smart” devices over which they have total control over which applications that you shall or shall not be allowed to install.... It would be as if you bought an oven from General Electric to cook your meals, but you could only buy your food for that particular oven from GE and, even worse, GE decided what food they would sell you. Oh, you wanted to buy some meat to cook? Well,...