"...students will want to try Microsoft's tools because they're more powerful than the open-source combination of Linux-based operating systems, the Apache Web server, the MySQL database and the PHP scripting language used to make complex Web sites."
Then why does Facebook use Linux Apache MySQL and PHP? (You remember Facebook don't you Bill? The massive social networking site MS just bought into...) Perhaps it slipped your mind. Yeah, must be a fluke. What these big sites need is some powerful MS software. That'll be why Wikipedia runs on Server 2003, MSSQL, ASP and IIS... Oh wait a minute, that runs on LAMP too... What about Google then? Any MS software on their servers? Didn't think so... erm if I were you I'd get my coat...
According to 'El Reg, Dell has sold around 40,000 Ubuntu powered PCs. To be fair, that's not too bad for an operating system that isn't Windows or Mac....
Dell isn't a dumb company, if they're investing time and money in improving Ubuntu and making it more appealing to the user I guess they must think it can make them money.
What on Earth are you on about man? Your laughable attempts at stringing together a coherent comment bely your ignorance. Really, why do people bother?
"...it's never served any purpose at a satisfactory level for me and I do everything with a PC you can possibly imagine from graphics, video, games, programming, web design, chat, email, office tasks, research, etc"
If you do indeed use your PC for every possible task please try the dictionary, thesaurus and grammar checker.
From the article: "Issues will surface from the deployments as well as throughout the program as end users test its limits thought their day-to-day activities."
Disregarding the confusion between thought and through, it's slightly worrying that the limits of Windows Vista SP1 are expected to be reached during the performance of 'day-to-day activities'.....
Hell, we don't even use any office software at my business (text documents are done with Textpad).
So, while Open Office and Linux is nice and all, it only meets a fraction of common, every day business needs.
So you're aware that products such as open office are available for free and yet you use textpad for word processing. You're either a nutter or a liar mate!!
Given that the media and entertainment industry has made such a miserable job of enforcing copyright since the emergence high speed internet, perhaps their efforts would be better spent figuring out ways to capitalise on the presence of sites such as youtube and myspace.
If businesses such as Red Hat can make a living from open-source software, surely there's a more refined way for said media businesses to realise capital from their assets without being so 'grabby'!
You can actually 'tinker' eh hem.... with Windows XP and increase the number of connections available from the pitiful 10 allowed by microsoft. If you use NLite from www.nliteos.com to create a bootable CD, it has an option allowing you to increase the maximum available connections to XP to 16777215...
Mooowahahahaha...
I'm a little confused. What the heck is this story about? It just seems to bash Linux desktop for no apparent reason. The difference between Vista, OSX and Linux desktops is the first two arrive out of the box, and you (if you so wish) build the Linux desktop to your requirements. With regard to features etc, the Linux desktop has the features the user chooses.
I'm willing to bet that more or less any desktop feature you can find in Vista or OSX is available or in development for Linux...
Features available in the end users copy of Linux are defined by which packages a maintainer has decided to include with a Linux distribution. I think Ubuntu is making steps towards creating a nice desktop operating system and we'll see something much more refined appearing from the Ubuntu team over the next couple of years.
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"...students will want to try Microsoft's tools because they're more powerful than the open-source combination of Linux-based operating systems, the Apache Web server, the MySQL database and the PHP scripting language used to make complex Web sites."
Then why does Facebook use Linux Apache MySQL and PHP? (You remember Facebook don't you Bill? The massive social networking site MS just bought into...) Perhaps it slipped your mind. Yeah, must be a fluke. What these big sites need is some powerful MS software. That'll be why Wikipedia runs on Server 2003, MSSQL, ASP and IIS... Oh wait a minute, that runs on LAMP too... What about Google then? Any MS software on their servers? Didn't think so... erm if I were you I'd get my coat...
What a load of tosh...According to 'El Reg, Dell has sold around 40,000 Ubuntu powered PCs. To be fair, that's not too bad for an operating system that isn't Windows or Mac....
Dell isn't a dumb company, if they're investing time and money in improving Ubuntu and making it more appealing to the user I guess they must think it can make them money.
If you check out the screenshot, youll see that the bot is trying to lure females rather than males....
"...it's never served any purpose at a satisfactory level for me and I do everything with a PC you can possibly imagine from graphics, video, games, programming, web design, chat, email, office tasks, research, etc"
If you do indeed use your PC for every possible task please try the dictionary, thesaurus and grammar checker.
From the article:
"Issues will surface from the deployments as well as throughout the program as end users test its limits thought their day-to-day activities."
Disregarding the confusion between thought and through, it's slightly worrying that the limits of Windows Vista SP1 are expected to be reached during the performance of 'day-to-day activities'.....
So, Windows 2003 has a "feature" that deals with denial-of-service attacks - it shuts down! Brilliant!
Yeah, I thought that --- superb feature, you've just got to love Microsoft....
Hell, we don't even use any office software at my business (text documents are done with Textpad). So, while Open Office and Linux is nice and all, it only meets a fraction of common, every day business needs.
So you're aware that products such as open office are available for free and yet you use textpad for word processing. You're either a nutter or a liar mate!!Given that the media and entertainment industry has made such a miserable job of enforcing copyright since the emergence high speed internet, perhaps their efforts would be better spent figuring out ways to capitalise on the presence of sites such as youtube and myspace.
If businesses such as Red Hat can make a living from open-source software, surely there's a more refined way for said media businesses to realise capital from their assets without being so 'grabby'!
You can actually 'tinker' eh hem.... with Windows XP and increase the number of connections available from the pitiful 10 allowed by microsoft. If you use NLite from www.nliteos.com to create a bootable CD, it has an option allowing you to increase the maximum available connections to XP to 16777215...
Mooowahahahaha...
I'm a little confused. What the heck is this story about? It just seems to bash Linux desktop for no apparent reason. The difference between Vista, OSX and Linux desktops is the first two arrive out of the box, and you (if you so wish) build the Linux desktop to your requirements. With regard to features etc, the Linux desktop has the features the user chooses. I'm willing to bet that more or less any desktop feature you can find in Vista or OSX is available or in development for Linux... Features available in the end users copy of Linux are defined by which packages a maintainer has decided to include with a Linux distribution. I think Ubuntu is making steps towards creating a nice desktop operating system and we'll see something much more refined appearing from the Ubuntu team over the next couple of years.