Posted on 05/30/2006 11:51:59 AM PDT by N3WBI3
Ha ha!
Jackass.
I disagree. Ignorance can be fixed, stupid is forever.
This will be hell for helping people. Support people will need to know the difference between seven versions. Users also won't know what version they have.
The only reason for multiple versions is market segmentation for Microsoft's profit. Plus you'll get the case I'm seeing with XP Castrated Edition, where people buy it and find they need to upgrade to do anything serious. "I bought a computer with Windows, but I can't encrypt folders or set file-level access controls. What? I need Pro for that? How much?"
Sorry, but Windows doesn't rule because it's a superior platform. It rules because there's one vendor, with powerful finances, that has OEM relationships with all major manufacturers. Even Apple is now delivering Macs with Windows pre-installed. Linux, with dozens of competing distros and weak OEM support will never match that. And I'm a Debian user, folks. The same thing that makes Linux such a success among developers and enthusiasts is the very thing that will prevent it from every being packaged as an OEM system...freedom to do whatever the hell you want with it, freedom to make as many versions as possible. Vendors don't want to support dozens of distros. They want one, single business to deal with, one single standard. Not multiple desktop managers, distros, or toolsets. Microsoft and Apple have the benefit of absolutely controlling their platforms. That's what OEM's want. When Red Hat decided to focus exclusively on the business server market, any hope of corporate supported mass market Linux died.
Of course not MS has always been yesterdays technology but with a great business plan
Linux, with dozens of competing distros and weak OEM support will never match that.
Nobody is expecting Linux to have a huge market share but MS's blunders in the creation of vista will help Linux greatly. That and the fact I (1) Dont want to run different desktop operating systems and (2) I cant afford to upgrade the hardware to every desktop in the company leaves me with the following, I have to seriously look at Linux on the desktop if for no other reason than to run a transparent RDP to a terminal server..
.freedom to do whatever the hell you want with it, freedom to make as many versions as possible. Vendors don't want to support dozens of distros.
You are implying Dell / HP or an application vendor has to support all distros if the support any, this is not true. Dell only sells RedHat servers they wont support Debain
Probably.
in Essence, it was Windows XP's features with Windows 98SE's kernel, and an FAT32 file system instead of NTFS.
It was horribly unstable. So bad, in fact, that a friend told me that a shop refused to work on her laptop because it had Windows ME on it. I thought 98SE was a much better product. Its registry was a mess if memory serves me correctly.
The only real difficulty i had with Windows ME was when i got one of the first computer virii that existed, an old boot sector exploit. My own fault using old floppies that hadn't been virus checked. All that was required was the insertion of the DOS Disk, and an fdisk /mbr command.
As i said in my post, the key to Windows ME was to keep the registry clean. For that purpose i use System Mechanic's registry cleaning tool once a week. The laptop still runs fine with Windows ME.
Fact is that all operating systems will have individual quirks. This includes the various flavours of Windows. For example: i run SuSE 9.2 Professional on this machine with a dialup connection. Last week as i was getting SuSE updates from one of their ftp sites, my connection died. i couldn't get back on line. It seems that my modem commands were changed. i didn't know the Hays modem commands, so i was pretty screwed. Couldn't have the modem redetected and configured for some reason. Ended up that i had to insert a Knoppix CD, run kppp and look at the modem command set after i configured the Internet tool. Copied that into SuSE's kppp utility, and was back in business. The quirk involved is that SuSE (and Redhat/Fedora) both have messed up their internet connection tools. i still can't connect with kinternet.
Stupid is posting an article claiming Linux will win "the battle with Microsoft", then trying to claim knocking MS down from 90 percent to 87 percent is somehow victory. But, that's how pathetic the open source lunis on this site have become.
Your definition of an Open Source "luni" (I presume you mean "loony" or "luny") seems to be anyone who considers GNU/Linux to be superior to Windows--which, IMO, it is.
I do not speak from ignorance. I used Windows for years before I switched to Linux and even now, I work for a company that is almost 100% Windows where I write code primarily in C# and ASP.
Stupid is posting an article claiming Linux will win "the battle with Microsoft", then trying to claim knocking MS down from 90 percent to 87 percent is somehow victory.
I don't think that Microsoft will lose its market superiority, but knocking them from 90 to 87 percent would, in fact, be a victory. Microsoft has one advantage: their products are not having to go head-to-head against much of anything. Most department stores or tech stores (Best Buy, Circuit City, etc.) stock mostly or all Windows, with some having a few Macs laying around somewhere. The reason for which is, obviously, that their OS comes pre-loaded on every system. This is, from a marketing/PR point of view, a very difficult problem to overcome. If they lose 3% of their market share, it means that more people are pro-actively making the switch from Microsoft to an alternative. They are becoming more aware of the possibilities. Three percent may not sound like much and, if you are going for market dominance, it isn't, but 3% of computer users is a lot of people, nonetheless. Does three percent bring down Microsoft? By no means, but it would be a victory for OSS.
I still haven't tried Vista yet. I am putting together another PC and will probably load it.
I hope I am not disappointed with it.
WTS?
The day I give away work for free is the day my wife hands me my Heroic butt on a plate.
I guess the capitalist in me doesn't understand the whole concept.
Regards, Ivan
Windows Terminal Server
Easy to manage, doesn't crash easily and if your users log off correctly, they won't get hung sessions which will force you to clear them off.
Basically if XP worked as well as WTS 2003 does (and it doesn't and it's no where close), there wouldn't be an issue really. Just my experience.
Actually I should have said "free software lunis", as that is ultimately what they are, but they hide under the sheep's clothing of "open source".
Microsoft is bound to eventually lose some of their market share, there's simply nowhere to go up from ~90%. When they do, it won't all be to free software like Linux, but to other products like Apple OSX and Sun Solaris instead. Hopefully most of it will, since those are American products owned by American companies, and not a foreign born fake like Linux.
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