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Microsoft's 'Hands-On' Linux Lab
aneroid writes "eWeek has a story on Microsoft allowing a third party to present a 'hands-on lab' that allowed attendees to play with a range of Linux desktop software at its annual worldwide partner show in Minnesota this weekend. It was run by Don Johnson (not the actor), who explained in true MS style how the things that are considered wrong with Windows are planned or an advantage. Whether it's for the desktop or server, wasn't clear. People did get to 'see the Apache Web server in action' and a KDE desktop.Is this more of a preemptive strike where the Linux experience is so bad (slow machines, old software) they wouldn't bother to check it out in the future, thus securing an existing partner/client? Or are they that confident people won't stray if they're invited to sample the competition? According to the Register, 'Microsoft is unlikely to stop developers moving to Linux and open source so its best hope lies in articulating a strategy of co-existence to limit the 'damage' to its business.'"
In Soviet Russia, Linux Lab Puts Hands On Microsoft!
You forgot WinME!
Oh wait - it's better if everyone forgets WinME. We all know MS are trying to...
The Mothership
Ladies and gentlemen please watch my assistant as amazing new Microsoft Windows Longhorn cleans tough stains like wine! Blood! Grass! Pet Stains! The leading competetive product still leaves unsightly stains behind even after three applications! Now watch as amazing Microsoft Windows Longhorn foams away denture stains like magic, while the dentures cleaned with Linux are still brown and dirty! Ladies and gentlemen, please observe as amazing new Microsoft Windows Longhorn cuts right through tough grease, while Linux leaves dishes covered with spots! Who will pay just $299 for a subscription to this amazing new product? You sir! And you! And you ma'am, thank you very much! You sir! Thank you! Don't crowd, there's plenty for everybody!
I would be interested to see why they planned the high infestion rate of viruses in their products or what the advantage of this infestation is.
and it was obvious from the get-go that Microsoft was trying to make Linux look bad. Not only were the running KDE (does anyone use that?), they didn't have Emacs installed (just vi w/o the X version), and they were running it on some pretty crappy hardware; a PIII w/ 128mb of RAM, a toaster, an old shoe, and a moldy piece of toast still in the toaster (which they were calling a Linux blade solution).
/., wrote "erpCON 2005" on their white button down shirts, and had an odor that was detectable from 30 feet away, again all before lunch).
Despite M$ stacking the deck against Linux the audience was captivated by the capabilities of the system and the posibilities of FOSS. I even saw two MBAs port Linux to their iPAQs, pull some code off the Internet, teach themselves C and perl, and write a complete ERP system for their business (which they are submitting to SourceForge soon) all before lunch (as an aside, in that same time they grew beards, joined
Amazing how Microsoft's attempts to undermine the community were undermined by the community.
It was run by Don Johnson (not the actor)
Well, now he is.
Oh god, the memories, they're coming back.
He realized that linux was a viable product as soon as Microsoft started their anti-linux campaign.
And in other news, Microsoft has announced that corn flakes is not Enterprise Ready.
It was run by Don Johnson (not the actor), who explained in true MS style how the things that are considered wrong with
Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks.
The high virus infestation rate is an incentive for sucke^Wcustomers
One day they'll invent a key that allows you to delete previous characters, so that people will no longer have to type "^H" or "^W." I imagine it will be called a "delete previous character" key, or perhaps a "backspace" key.
Who knows! The future is limitless.
Proposed names for this fabulous new key:
For the cost of a blank DVD and an hour or so to download an ISO, I can have everything I want and more.
Now that is a fast connection.
REM Old programmers don't die. They just GOSUB without RETURN.
I think we would be better served by a drop down menu with choices about deleting the last character, word, sentence, paragraph, etc. Perhaps this could be a new feature developed for Longhorn and backported to XP.
Oh, don't forget lots of "Are you sure?" boxes to click on.
Sorry for the rant, I've spent the last 8 hours supporting crappy MS programs for stupid people.
Don't save Windows XP! http://www.petitiononline.com/jjw1xp/petition.html
"Introduction to Christianity" courses by Osama Bin Laden.
Well, I would agree except perhaps for "lpt on fire!!"
There are exactly 42,935,718 letter sized sheets in a square mile.
The message that most alarmed me was a beta IM program that crashed and it sayed: "A background error has occured. Please email the author at (email address) telling what you were doing if you cannot contact the author in a faster way."
I was like, "Crud! It must be important if email is too slow."
Backgrounder - still needs some work before it can become a proper movie treatment
Following on from the lowering of T1 into the foundary cauldren at the end of "Terminator 2 : Judgement Day", the steel was eventually used to make 1000s of paper clips. These paper clips each inherited a small part of the T1 intelligence, however, because of the heat, the software resorted to the evil, malicious intent of the T1 originally shown in "The Terminator".
Individually, these paper clips were harmless. However, when kept in a box, their collective intelligence could combine, such that they were able to execute Skynet's dastardly plans.
Out of a black-ops / skunk-works-type covert, federal lab arose Detypinator, who set out to detype the Skynet, and restore the paper clips to their original, benign uses - holding lumps of paper together, and annoying the hell out of MS Word users.
The Internet's nature is peer to peer - 20050301_cs_profs.pdf
I can just picture how they'll be sure to give everyone an objective view of their competitor:
"Now, here's a machine running Linux. See that icon sitting there on the desktop? Now, if you double-click that, it will annihilate all of space and time in a single instant. Is that really the type of thing you want built into the OS all your employees are using? Also, did I mention that Microsoft-sponsored studies indicate a strong causal connection between Linux and the bubonic plague? Although I'm told the OS is becoming quite popular among people who beat their wives and kick cute little puppies."
"On older Linux systems (those shipped with 1.2.13 kernel) if you were logged in with a UID that was removed from the /etc/passwd calling whoami
(I think) would provide:
"You don't exist! Go away."
-From the mailing list of Linux Users Group of Davis.
Windows has detected an undetectable error.
What about Windows RG?