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Google Reportedly Ditching Windows
Reader awyeah notes a Financial Times report that Google is ditching the use of Windows internally. Some blogs have picked up the FT piece but so far there isn't any other independent reporting of the claim, which is based on comments from anonymous Googlers. One indication of possibly hasty reporting is the note that Google "employs more than 10,000 workers internationally," whereas it's easy enough to find official word that the total exceeds 20,000. "The directive to move to other operating systems began in earnest in January, after Google's Chinese operations were hacked, and could effectively end the use of Windows at Google. ... 'We're not doing any more Windows. It is a security effort,' said one Google employee. ... New hires are now given the option of using Apple's Mac computers or PCs running the Linux operating system. 'Linux is open source and we feel good about it,' said one employee. 'Microsoft we don't feel so good about.' ... Employees wanting to stay on Windows required clearance from 'quite senior levels,' one employee said. 'Getting a new Windows machine now requires CIO approval,' said another employee."
I'm not certain why anyone would care. Ya know, besides the folks who are on the endless jihad against all things MS.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
how do you do that from the command line? Oh wait, that's right. What command line?
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Sigh, badmouth Apple on Slashdot and get modded down, no matter how accurate your post may be. ... ...
MacOS is hardly an improvement over Windows -- in fact it may well be a downgrade.
It would make perfect sense if they were moving to Linux only -- an operating system that is free in both senses of the word, but allowing continued use of MacOS but not Windows seems a bit hypocritical.
Just a thought, maybe Google and Mac using /.ers are on to something and _you're_ the one that's off base. Don't worry, nobody really uses Windows or Macs, Apple and Microsoft pay thousands of shills to make it look that way. Or maybe everyone who uses a Mac is a flaming rtard, that's it. People having equal experience with Mac/Windows/Linux/Solaris are evil incarnate and not to be trusted. Best to trust people who say things you like.
Run Windows 7. Its a hell of a lot better. MS finally got something right.
Bullshit. Windows 7 is still the bloated creaking pile of shit that Windows always was. What kind of pile of shit OS needs hundreds of MB's of memory just to run? I've used Win7 on netbooks. It's slow and shitty just like what you'd expect. I watched the video today of Windows 7 on the new tablets Asus is about to release. You know what? It was slow and buggy as shit. The person on the video had to press icons several times to get anything to work and the multi-touch wasn't working worth a shit. There's a reason the smart companies like HP are abandoning the Wintanic.
The soylentnews experiment has been a dismal failure.
You use an iPad in the music studio? I wasn't aware that there were apps that made it useful there.
I think you meant the Mac, which I have seen used extensively in studios due to the high quality of Logic Pro, and I've even seen iPods used as pocket drives, but the form factor of an iPad makes me suspect you got something wrong.
Using an iPad in a music studio feels like mixing paint with a phillips screwdriver: sure, you can do it, but it's not the intended use of the tool and there are other solutions that are much better.
On Slashdot, you can say things like "Ever heard of the Jazzmutant Lemur?" and everyone will either claim (honestly or not) to be familiar with it, or scramble to find out about it, since clearly it must be something important to know about, or our fellow Slashdotter wouldn't be mentioning it here.
The same question might not go over as well if asked of a helpful policeman, a greengrocer, a veterinarian, a priest, a schoolteacher, the school counselor the teacher refers you to, or the helpful men who the counselor calls to have you fitted for a new sweater with arms that fasten in the back.
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
Hence the word, "probably". Is English your first language?
"He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. " -- John Calvin, commenting on Genesis 1