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Microsoft-Novell Relationship Hits the Skids
Anonymous writes "According to Channelweb, the bloom might be off the rose in the Novell-Microsoft relationship: the two companies didn't sign a single, solitary large customer to a Novell Linux deal during the most recent quarter. 'So Novell, one of the biggest Linux distributors in the world, and Microsoft, one of the biggest companies in world history, couldn't find a single large customer on Planet Earth to buy into Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server software. Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian has stepped up and, rather than point fingers at Microsoft for that performance, put the blame on his company and its inability to strengthen its reseller channel.'"
That's quite a violent approach to the problem. Invalidate all software patents? I don't think Apple would approve, as that would be the end of their business. But you really meant invalidate all of MSFT's right?
The only people that mod you up are the idiots that don't know you are behind BoycottNovell.com, or actually believe even a quarter of the garbage you post to that site, newsgroups, and blogs. You talk about people astroturfing but you are even worse. You spend all your free time spamming crap simply because it gives you a true purpose in life, and that's damn scary.
For the ill informed, this post should pretty much clear things up for you. This idiot, liar, and scumbag shouldn't even be allowed on the net at all. He's the unfortunate side effect to freedom of speech.
"When you see a unixer brainwashed beyond saving, kick him out of the door." - Xah Lee
My entire office switched to Office 2007 and the vast majority of people had no trouble adapting to the new UI. It makes your common features much more accessible. People that had the most problems were people that knew the old office the best and were used to hunting for the feature they wanted when it was no longer necessary in 2007.
As for GUIs I can safely say my Ubuntu install is far less consistent than the Windows install I have in a VM. Once I had the keymaps for Ubuntu I was able to operate my VM correctly.
Very few apps on any Linux distro have a consistent look and feel because there are a lot of toolkits available and there is very little effort in the way of standardization.
Ubuntu is famous for this lack of consistently, with Debian or CentOS you get consistency across boots at least. With Ubuntu right now sometimes my screen manager is at the very top of the screen, sometimes it is the second line. This makes Ubuntu look amateurish so you can't blame people for being uncomfortable with it. Then of course comes the playing of videos. Right now for the life of me I can't download youtube videos and play the flv when I can do it just fine on my Windows box using the same software no less. Firefox with downloadhelper to be exact. This is because mplayer doesn't know about the flash libraries available for whatever reason as it used to work in the past.
Sorry, but there are very few situation where I recommend Linux to anyone that I'm not around very often in terms of desktop usage. OOo takes a long time to load even on modest hardware and there is simply no compelling reason for someone to switch from Windows to Linux. They don't gain anything that they are going to use and the lose a lot that they will.
The only time in the last year I've been able to recommend Linux was for a netbook scenario where it was a relatively new computer user that just wanted to be able to check email and browse the web while out and about. Even things like printer setup is sometimes awkward with most Linux distros. I'll admit that its getting pretty slick these days though with automatic network printer discovery. Of course this is a feature Windows has had for 9 years.
Look, for most people who A) Don't need the "obscure" features of Office B) Don't need MS server support (such as Exchange) C) Don't game or D) Don't need photoshop, Linux is the obvious choice.
Maybe it's possible that I'm just an odd use case who wants the "obscure" features of Office and who games. :p But in my personal experience—even setting games aside—Linux applications just aren't up to snuff.
But I'll accept that, as I said, I may not be typical. It certainly makes considering Linux for the desktop a hard thing for me to consider, though.
What are you talking about? Installing?
I'd meant interactive desktop applications, but you're right, it was poorly phrased.
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YAAAAWWN you FUCKING slashdot fucktards.
redhat too, they just signed a deal with MS for virtualization.