Posted on 03/26/2006 4:49:30 AM PST by twntaipan
LOL! Now try saying the same about RH9.
strange
Indeed, but Linux still has some features that Windows doesn't, despite the general "hey let's rip Windows off" mentality that pervades Linux development.
I have run RH9 on a p3-1.8G with 128 of ram... Ran Apache, Sendmail, and MySql servers.. I now run FC4 on the same box just with 256 ram..
Here is what one of the anonymous Microsoft Employees had to say (these are early comments before Slash-Dot linked to the article which may have polluted the commentary pool with non-MS people):
You know, I've pondered for years what MS would do in this situation, when it became clear that the OS was a complete train wreck.Apple was able to buy NeXT, but MS has killed off all of their viable replacements. OS/2, BeOS, PenPoint? All strangled by MS's anti-competitive (and illegal) tactics.
So, here's the way out: MS should swallow real hard, ante up half of what they blew on Longwind, and buy an OS X license from Apple. That would be about $10B up-front, and a hefty royalty. MS would have to assume the burden of making it run on all the crapbox PCs out there, which have had all the quality squeezed out of them, due to MS's having sucked up the lion's share of the profit from all PCs for the last 20 years or so.
The benefit is that MS could finally ship a securable OS, and the users wouldn't have to lose countless hours trying to work around the malware. Meanwhile, the only semi-competent part of the company, the Mac Business Unit, would take the lead in Apps development.
Another MS employee said:
Is this what Windows has become? An upgrade no one wants, forced upon them because the new hardware they're buying doesn't support anything less?Compare this to OS X, where people fall all over themselves trying to get the newest version running on their old hardware because there's actual value in the new features.
So Vista has its guts ripped out, slips, and we wait another 5 years for a potentially insipring version of Windows, meanwhile Apple ships another 3 updates to OS X.
I hope to God Office 12 steps up and kicks some ass.
And last (but certainly not final of the 496 comments on the MS blog):
What's the difference between OS X and Vista?Microsoft employees are excited about OS X...
And of course, Apple partisans would never consider posting on mini-MSFT as MS employees... nahhhhh ... couldn't happen.... /SARCASM
Actually, some did... later on in the 500+ comments. But the ones I cited were early posts... and were posted by MS employees and retirees.
I can live with that...
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