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LindowsOS Softens Microsoft-Compatibility Claim
jukal writes: "As seen originally at newsforge: On Friday we reported the appearance of Microtel PCs with LindowsOS pre-installed at Walmart.com. Then, Walmart.com and Lindows were claiming that LindowsOS 'delivers the stability of UNIX with the ease of Windows and the ability to run most Microsoft programs.' Today, that last phrase has gone missing and there is no more talk of running any programs designed for Windows, let alone Microsoft products"
Promises one thing... delivers another. Its well on the way to MS territory already! ;)
"And the people buying PCs from Wal-Mart....Need to run Linux? Their boxen would get r00ted faster than people who didn't patch their apache yet."
Uh huh, and just last week you were complaining that these same people are zelots and run windows because its spoon fed to them. Why don't we just kill them and forget the whole thing? Oh wait, that would be mean.
--Should work--
It will run "most Microsoft programs"....
The phrase had to be removed, because not even Windows can run "most Microsoft programs".
"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away" -Tom Waits
And yet despite that, we've already got plenty of people raising the possibility that it's due to evil legal manuevering by Microsoft. Sometimes I wonder just how paranoid some of the Slashdotters out there really are.
(Disclaimer: I'm secretly receiving money, women, and youth rejuvenation treatments from Microsoft in exchange from posting pro-Microsoft comments here. I've also been instructed to bribe both RMS and Linus into joining our organization.)
I'm no elitist (see, I didn't even spell it right), but I totally agree. I work in a computer retail store that is on campus at a rather large southeastern university that is trying very desperately to move away from it's former Agriculture days and into the Tech society (they even changed thier name to reflect this). Nonetheless, day after day I deal with this: Them: "Uhm, I like, uhm, need to by some like, um, ink for my like, um, printer?" Me: "Allrighty, what sort of printer to you have?" Them: *pause, widen eyes* "Uhm. Uh, uhm. Uh. It's like, uhm, Beige?" And of course who can forget the myriad of people who walk in and say: "Uhm, uh. I'd like to uhm, by a copy of Microsoft Windows Office Word XP Mellenium Edition Home Pro 2000?" One day, in absolute frustration, I asked this customer, "Would you ever consider walking into a car lot and asking for a 'Toyota Lexus Marquis Miyata Ranger Jimmy'?" Thank Zaphod he had a sense of humor.
Why do I M2 everything negatively?
"6) True love exists -- at the bottom of a liquor bottle"
So...that dead worm is True Love? [pokes it with a stick] Eeew. I think I'll stick with one-night-stands.
"How long before "most Microsoft programs" have little bits of code added to shot them working on anything but offical microsoft windows.."
"most Microsoft programs" have enough trouble running on official Microsoft Windows as it is.
My life is one big siesta in which I'm dreaming I wished my life was one big siesta.
"I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it. And look, there's Magnetbox, and Sorny!"
Anyone consider the fallout from this when a few hundred Walmart shoppers rant about how Linux is a cheap rip-off of Windows? Lindows may end up being a huge propaganda loss for Linux.
Windows doesn't even run Microsoft products.