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Interview with Tony 'Say No to Windows' Bove

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the this-is-your-brain-on dept.

An anonymous reader writes "XYZ has an interview with Tony Bove, author of the upcoming book, "Just Say No to Microsoft". From the article: 'With this book Bove intends to help readers rid Microsoft from their life- this is easier said that done, but it is certainly possible. The book goes on to list alternatives to the Microsoft programs on which people have become dependent and probably think they cannot give up.'"

5 of 412 comments (clear)

  1. Re:WMV by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    just use the right codecs:
    http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:3aCwKM2vl0oJ:r pmfind.net/linux/RPM/sourceforge/m/mp/mplayer-tru/ mplayer-codecs-essential-20040704-1.i386.html+qtml Client.dll+mplayer&hl=en

  2. Re:the one thing you won't find in his review by brunes69 · · Score: 5, Informative
    What's your flavour?

    There's Novell-backed OpenExchange

    There's Germany-backed Kolab

    There's RedHat-backed eGroupWare

    There's all-open OpenGroupware

    And that's just the tip of it. There are also commercial products.

    Seriously - if you think there are not alternatives to Exchange out there, then either you have not done your homework or are seriously misinformed, or both.

  3. Problem solved: by trurl7 · · Score: 4, Informative

    https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php ?id=853

    Enjoy

  4. Re:Tell me About It by Dan+Farina · · Score: 4, Informative

    Perhaps this is because some us find working on Windows the most mind-grating thing ever.

    I really don't understand this fascination with Visual Studio. From what I've seen (which is not a trivial amout) of the 2003 version, it rather sucks in comparison to some of the latter day Free IDEs. I've heard from a friend at Microsoft that 2005 got a major upgrade in many areas (like refactoring) so that IDEs like Eclipse and Netbeans don't eat their mindshare/lunch. MS KNEW that they were weak there.

    In contrast, with *NIX I pretty much get a development environment out of the box. The one sore point is Java, which really is no different than installing it under Windows...it's just that most repositories do not include it. Besides this, it is trivial to obtain a shell, perl, python, gcc, ruby, and countless other libraries. I also haven't seen a half decent (free or otherwise, but less search for the latter type) virtual workspace manager for Windows.

    The one notable exception (which is a large one) is developing Windows applications. For this reason alone (with games, but those aren't productive, so they don't count) I must boot back into Windows now and again.

    df

  5. Re:Props to Tony Bove... by Tony+Bove · · Score: 4, Informative

    Thanks for pointing out the typo in my resume. I am, actually, an "expert" on iTunes, as I wrote "iPod and iTunes for Dummies" (3rd edition just came out). OK, all you flamers, light your torches about how much of a dummy I am...

    Thanks for reading.