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Will CS Students Switch From Microsoft?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the depends-on-the-faculty-too dept.

spotter writes: "There's an article in Newsweek International that talks about how Microsoft's tactics are turning off an entire generation of CS students from their products and increasing the fortunes of Linux." The article isn't deep or flawless, but hits on a major point: what students learn in school is key to what they go on to do.

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  1. Primitive screenshots by Ironfist_ironmined · · Score: 4, Funny

    they also seem to have some primitive screenshots of this here.
    I mean really, what civilised person would have their desktop like this rather than this.

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  2. Re:Comp Sci. Students & MSFT by fader · · Score: 5, Funny
    I don't know how it is at most other places, but at the University I attend the labs run NetBSD and KDE2.

    That's impossible -- you must be lying. Didn't you read the article?
    Linux hackers from Germany and elsewhere are working on a Windows-like graphical interface for Linux PCs called KDE (for K Desktop Environment). They expect to release it this spring...
    How can you be using KDE2 when KDE won't be released until spring? Now we know you're trolling. After all, what reason would MS NBC have to lie?
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  3. very consistent quality by Dr.+Awktagon · · Score: 4, Funny

    [Microsoft's software] has some advantages: it is generally more consistent in quality ..

    Yes, I suppose if there is one thing you can say about Microsoft's software, it's that the level of quality has been quite consistent.

  4. No, you just don't understand by roystgnr · · Score: 5, Funny

    KDE 3 will be out this spring! Although KDE 1 and 2 are out, they should probably be ignored just like Windows before version 3, Internet Explorer before version 4, and so on. Hasn't Microsoft taught us that the first versions of any software are completely useless? That people who try them are just dooming themselves to expensive retraining and conversions when the interfaces and file formats all get switched around? Clearly this "KDE" thing must just be starting to work out the bugs, if they're not even at version 3 yet.

  5. Re:It's nuts what Microsoft is doing to prevent th by Hal-9001 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Solution: $35000 / 700 people = $50/person

    Buy a boxed Linux/FreeBSD distribution for every person who attends. ;-)

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  6. kegs of beer by DABANSHEE · · Score: 4, Funny

    & dwarfs walking arround with bowls of cocaine balanced on their heads

    Ywh I know its been done before.