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Is there anything new about this? I'm in my early 30's now, and a string of console systems dominated the waking hours of most of my friends all through childhood- starting with Atari or Coleco systems as a small children and continuing all the way through to the Playstation when we reached...

The article discusses this in bit more detail than the summary you've quoted.

I've always thought it was 'N' World, even though I knew it was initials, because there aren't any dots. Like how NASA isn't en-a-es-a.

I don't know if I'd count this one, considering the fate of the actual protagonist of the story. But yeah, I just stared reading Lovecraft recently, and overall the characters in the stories fare a lot better the reputation of RPG led me to expect.

Mind Flayer. Not being a publisher, I have no need for a Mind Flayer replacement.

There might be confusion very early on, but I have a hard time imagining a potential D&D player who isn't capable of figuring it out pretty quickly. In the case of 3e, it's stated right on the back of the books, and I don't see why it would be different in 4e.

You've got this covered all on your own!

For a while, I've had this idea of running the original Freeport trilogy (with Freeport itself re-imagined as an ancient, seedy space-station) in a space opera setting. As I've never gotten very close to actually running this, the system I'd want to use keeps changing. Currently, it's Star Wars...

Really, I think it's more about what platforms the developers/project leaders are familiar with than it is about market share. If WoTC was crammed full of Mac users, I'd bet we'd be getting a cross platform version pretty quickly, market share be damned.

I doubt buying and installing Windows on your Mac just to run the DI would be worth it, especially if you're using a Mac because you specifically don't like Windows.

The grid makes it much easier to draw out the terrain on the fly.

More likely, they knew they weren't up to the challenge of creating software that would be acceptable to the more discerning and sophisticated Mac user base. :)

Monster level and XP values. From here: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drdd/20070827a This sounds like the "fixed experience awards" variant from Unearthed Arcana.

You gloss over it, but this box is the core of the home page, and it does everything you're asking for. It gave me trouble at first, though, because the fact that it had tabs wasn't immediately obvious to me. It also seems to changes tabs on it's own if you let it sit, which I don't think is a...

How is this different from a player wanting to use something from a book you don't own?

It doesn't sound like this is any different than how 3e works. Right now, there isn't a universally understood term for "non-setting specific D&D books," and they happen to be using the word 'core.' This doesn't suddenly make anything beyond the three main books required to play the game. It's...

You could comprise, and have both sides roll, so that casting a spell on someone is an opposed check.

I've heard that Monte Cook is a pretty good DM.

WotC is lucky you don't write their marketing slogans :)

Sure they would. Based on the changes we already know about, the 3e definition of the word 'epic' can hardly be considered safe. We can't even be sure of what they mean by 'core.'