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Microsoft Challenges Linux's Legacy Claims
Michael writes "Microsoft Corp.'s Linux and open-source lab on the Redmond campus has been running some interesting tests of late, one of which was looking at how well the latest Windows client software runs on legacy hardware in comparison to its Linux competitors. The tests, which found that Windows performed as well as Linux on legacy hardware when installed and run out-of-the-box, were done in part to give Microsoft the data it needed to effectively 'put to rest the myth that Linux can run on anything.'"
how about those knicks?
What about NetBSD? I'd like to see them install Windows CE on a mechanical pencil! Hah!
Be relentless!
No need to get defensive.
There's nothing substantative in the article. I didn't see benchmarks, I didn't see screenshots of the system in action. I saw he said/she said between some MS people and some guy from Novell.
It's below a non-story.
I really want to get a lot of publicity for being able to misunderstand something, then hire some folks, buy some hardware, install some software, spend months generating data all based on my initially incorrect assumption of what I think I heard someone once say about something that I know if I really tried to unblock it, I would know right away that I was full of shit and just pandering to the marketing department, since they have all the money, and my weak ass strawman argument wouldn't hold up to even a casual look, but who cares - it makes a great bullet point.
No seriously. I want it. And a end to run on sentences....
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The myth they were actually trying to disprove is that Windows doesn't run on old hardware.
It isn't a myth: Windows doesn't run on a 486, it walks.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
I just bought a toaster today and it cannot run Linux or Windows. I was about to take them back until I realized that I don't often check my email at the toaster, I normally do that at the blender before I check my RSS feeds from my dishwasher.
I think we're overlooking the real news here: They got Windows to run!
That's what I need... a toaster that needs fixing every few days, constantly pops up toast containing viruses and Spam, and keeps telling me how great it'll be when it starts working correctly, probably sometime in 2007.
By "runs like a dream" do you mean, it only runs that well in your dreams?
Because that's what I've heard the stability and hardware support is like for Win x64... just hearsay, since I'm not going to touch it, of course.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
Sure it can, use Windows XP to make a DOS bootdisk and boot off that.
"Besides, for old hardware, where's Debian in their comparison? "
Well, don't you think that comparison would be a tad unfair? I mean after all, doesn't Debian stable date from about 1997?
(Ducking and running)
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Debian 1.3.1 (bo) was released in 1997. There have been 5 releases since then. :-P
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Yes, you and Knuth, both luddites.
It was a joke dude. :)
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
Forget it, that was a German dude
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