Question: Who criticized Microsofts closed platform Windows Store?
Answer: video game developers

Question: Who created Minecraft?
Answer: Markus "Notch" Persson

Question: Who developed Steam?
Answer: Gabe Newell

Question: What company is Rob Pardo associated with?
Answer: Activision Blizzard

Question: What was the main reasoning behind the creation of the Windows Store?
Answer: responding to the success of both Apple and Google in pursuing the "curated application store approach."

Question: Who equated windos 8 as the first desktop operating system that understand what a computer is supposed to do?
Answer: David Pierce

Question: Why did Pierce give the Start Screen such glowing reviews?
Answer: because it allows users to interact with dynamic information

Question: Which improvements were most well regarded?
Answer: File History, Storage Spaces, and the updated Task Manager

Question: Who else uses a closed distribution platform?
Answer: Apple

Question: What makes the Windows 8 interface difficult to use?
Answer: the lack of instructions provided by the operating system on the functions accessed through the user interface

Question: Who said the Windows 8 interface was clumsy and impractical?
Answer: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Question: What kind of feedback has Windows 8 received?
Answer: mixed

Question: What is IDC?
Answer: market research firm

Question: What is the decline in PC sales attributed to?
Answer: consumers bought more mobile devices

Question: How much of a decrease in sales have Windows devices experienced?
Answer: 21 percent

Question: While Windows sales went down, which company experienced an increase in sales?
Answer: Apple

Question: What percent of tablets were running Windows in Q1 2013/
Answer: 7.4

Question: What was Androids market share in 2013?
Answer: 43.4%

Question: What was teh iOS market share in 2013?
Answer: 48.2%

Question: What does Strategy Analytics say Windows tablets are lacking?
Answer: top tier apps

Question: When did Windows 8 surpass Windows Vistas market share?
Answer: July 2013

Question: What changes did Microsoft make to its certification requirements in March 2013?
Answer: amended its certification requirements to allow tablets to use the 1024×768 resolution as a minimum

Question: Why did Microsoft change the tablet resolution minimum? 
Answer: to allow the production of certified Windows 8 tablets in smaller form factors

Question: How many licenses did Microsoft sell in the first six months?
Answer: 100 million

Question: What controlled the small form tablet market at this time?
Answer: Android-based tablets

Question: When did Microsoft make the existence of Windows 8.1 with Bing OEM SKU official?
Answer: May 23, 2014

Question: When did Microsoft remove license fees on device screens less than 9 inches?
Answer: April 2, 2014

Question: When did Windows 8 decrease the price of Windows 8 for devices that cost less than $250?
Answer: February 2014

Question: What was the benefit of Windows 8.1 with Bing?
Answer: cheaper Windows 8 licenses to OEMs in exchange for setting Internet Explorer's default search engine to Bing

Question: When did the Chinese government ban the purchase of Windows 8 products?
Answer: May 2014

Question: Why did the Chinese government ban Windows 8 based products?
Answer: in protest of Microsoft's support lifecycle policy and the end of support for Windows XP

Question: What market share did Windows XP have in Chine?
Answer: 49%

Question: Who claimed that the Windows 8 would allow the US Government to spy on its users?
Answer: Ni Guangnan

Question: What does CCTV stand for?
Answer: China Central Television

Question: What is the name of the Chinese social network?
Answer: Sina Weibo

Question: Who claimed that the Window 8 OS could gather sensitive user information?
Answer: Ni Guangnan

Question: Where did Yang Min practice as a computer scientiest?
Answer: Fudan University

Question: When was Windows 8.1 introduced?
Answer: May 14, 2013

Question: When did Microsoft release the beta version of Windows 8.1?
Answer: June 26, 2013

Question: When did MSDN and TechNet users gain access to Windows 8.1?
Answer: September 9, 2013

Question: What search engine was added in Windows 8.1?
Answer: Bing-based unified search system

Question: How did the Windows 8.1 upgrade enhance desktop startup?
Answer: ability to boot to the desktop instead of the Start screen

Question: What main feature was added back to the desktop?
Answer: a visible Start button

Question: How many apps did the WIndows 8.1 update allow to be snapped onto a signular display?
Answer: up to four

Question: How wide is Swaziland in miles??
Answer: 81 mi

Question: What is the primary language spoken by the people in Swaziland?
Answer: siSwati

Question: In terms of size where does Swaziland rank within Africa in terms of country size?
Answer: one of the smallest

Question: When did the ethnic Swazis establish a kingdom?
Answer: mid-18th century

Question: Who was the leader of the 18th century Swazi kingdom?
Answer: Ngwane III

Question: What is the per capita GDP of Swaziland?
Answer: $9,714

Question: What is the SACU?
Answer: Southern African Customs Union

Question: What is the lilangeni?
Answer: Swaziland's currency

Question: What does the acronym COMESA represent?
Answer: Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa

Question: What form of currency is the lilangeni fixed to?
Answer: South African rand

Question: What is the literal translation of Nkhosi?
Answer: king

Question: What did Mswati II do to the land controlled by Swaziland during his reign?
Answer: greatly extended the area of the country

Question: In terms of the most successful Swaziland kings in battle, who was the best?
Answer: Mswati II

Question: What groups did Mswati attack in the mid 19th century?
Answer: Emakhandzambili clans

Question: Where does the name Swaziland originate?
Answer: Mswati II. KaNgwane

Question: In what year did the British take Swaziland on as a protectorate? 
Answer: 1903

Question: What 1903 conflict involving the British caused Swaziland to become a protectorate?
Answer: Anglo-Boer war

Question: In what year was Swaziland given self governance? 
Answer: 1906

Question: How much of Swaziland did the European area contain after the portioning?
Answer: two-thirds of the total land

Question: When was Sobhuza coronated?
Answer: December 1921

Question: When did the Swaziland constitution come to be?
Answer: November 1963

Question: What is another way to refer to the Swazi National Council?
Answer: liqoqo

Question: When was the Legislative Council of Swaziland first created?
Answer: 9 September 1964

Question: When did elections that provided for a House of Assembly for Swaziland occur?
Answer: 1967

Question: In what year was the constitution of Swaziland suspended?
Answer: 1973

Question: Who ruled Swaziland in the late 1970s?
Answer: King Sobhuza II

Question: When did King Sobhuza II die?
Answer: 1982

Question: Who was the head of state of Swaziland after King Sobhuza II
Answer: Queen Regent Dzeliwe Shongwe

Question: Which monarch of Swaziland was crownd in April 1986?
Answer: Mswati III

Question: Who appoints the prime minister of Swaziland?
Answer: The king

Question: What is the parliament of Swaziland known as?
Answer: the Libandla

Question: What part of the Swaziland parliament is appointed by the King?
Answer: a minority

Question: Why is the king allowed to appoint members of parliament?
Answer: to balance views in parliament

Question: How many seats are in the Senate of Swaziland?
Answer: 30 seats

Question: How many members are there in the Swazi House of Assembly?
Answer: 65

Question: When were the most recent elections in Swaziland?
Answer: 20 September 2013

Question: How many members of the Swazi House of Assembly are chosen by the king?
Answer: 10

Question: Which group looks over elections in Swaziland?
Answer: the elections and boundaries commission