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Microsoft Competes In Supercomputer Market

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the super-vista-gets-a-cape dept.

HoboMaster writes "Microsoft is releasing a public beta of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 in their first attempt to compete in the supercomputer OS market. Gates is planned to speak at the 2005 Supercomputer Conference, which will be Microsoft's first appearance at the conference. Gates, as always, has high hopes for this new version of Windows, even claiming it to be as powerful and easier to use than Linux."

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  1. Claiming? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Gates is *claiming* Windows is easier to use than Linux? The poster makes it sound as if it isn't true! Short of the whole open source thing, what advantage does Linux have over Windows? Keep in mind I can put practically any shell on Windows, along with Open Office, Gimp, Firefox, etc.

    When I bring hardware home, it works! Try getting those wireless usb devices working in Linux. Possible, sure! Do you just plug it in the slot and put in the CD and it works, not *even* close. Audio on Linux? You've got to be fucking kidding me. What fantasy world does the poster live in where Linux is easier to use than Windows?

  2. ummm, yeah, right.... by zappepcs · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Not trolling, but...

    When Windows 2003 server can fit on a bootable CD, taking up less than 100MB of that CD, then I will begin to believe the claims that MS can build an OS that is capable of 'super computing'.... The Puppy Linux distro makes an absolute joke of Windows XP....

    I feel the same way about MS as I now feel about Sony... let them both rot in the pit of public disdain

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  3. Re:Little redundant... by VATechTigger · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Of course its easier to use. Who ever said rebooting was hard........

  4. Re:First thing one associates with that name... by tacolicker · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You're a moron. Die.

  5. Typo alert! by bombshelter13 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >Microsoft Competes In Supercomputer Market

    I think you mispelled 'Fails To Compete'.

  6. you misspelled poses by wardk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "poses" is spelled

    P-O-S-E-S

    not C-O-M-P-E-T-E- S

    that's an entirely different word, and I think the meanings are still different too.