It does mean, however, that I could send an Office 2007 user an ODF document that I made with OpenOffice.org and they would be able to open it.
I see a little problem here. The key is Office 2007. It will take a while for most of the MS Office users to have switched to 2007 (SP2!) or newer, don't you think? Especially if most people don't like the new interface, as many here on Slashdot would like the world to believe.
Only those who download Firefow from the website will be counted? That would be pretty much only the Windows users, I guess.
Lots of people just use Synaptics or whatever package manager their distro provides. In my case it will be typing "emerge -avuDt world". I'm not going to download from the website just to get counted, you know.
There are some things about Vista which are better than XP. XP doesn't support WPA2. I had to downgrade our router setting from WPA2 to WPA because my dad's laptop with XP couldn't connect to it. WPA2 was no problem for me and my brother, because I use Linux and my brother runs Vista. But now my brother is going to install XP on his laptop because he doesn't like Vista... So now we're stuck on using WPA instead of WPA2. Why can't we all just run Linux:(
Hard drive? That's obsolete. Everyone's using solid state these days. So what? The file formats stay the same, compatibility is 100%. But Blu-Ray and its competitors, that's a completely different story.
Fact: most people are MORONS. Maybe, but most people don't know that they have the option of using something else. They think that on a PC you *must* use Windows.
I'll just start doing whatever gets modded highest here.
Right. So you think there will only be one post modded to 5 points? What method will you use to select from those? I sense an infinite recursion coming here:)
Thanks for blogging about our commitment to openness. We've been working
really hard over the past few years in making all of our services more
open and standards based, working with the SIP as well as the
Jabber/XMPP communities. Our XMPP gateway at xmpp.oscar.aol.com, which
we've been working on for a while now, is just one approach we're
tinkering with. As you pointed out, though, this particular server at
xmpp.oscar.aol.com is a test server, so I wouldn't count on it being
reliable or even continuously available until we put some more work into
it to bring it up to our standards.
In the meantime, keep your eyes open for more announcements from us
soon. We're excited by the work we're doing and the support we've
received from the broader internet community and hope you'll be just as
excited by what we've got to offer.
I receive a great deal of emails to totally fictitious email accounts at my domains. Those recipients receive 0% legitimate emails, so anything sending to those accounts is 100% certainly a spammer.
OK, but what when someone makes a typo when sending a message to one of your existing e-mail adresses?
Vista is the only operating system that supports DirectX10 at the moment. if it stays that way and games start making use of DirectX10 features then gamers will have no choice but to use Vista.
What about the other way around? If not enough gamers switch to Vista, game developing companies may decide not to use DirectX 10 because it would artificially limit the number of people that will buy their games.
Office 2007 is on the street, and we are going to be hit with a barrage of OOXML files that can't be opened by anybody who's not running Microsoft. Any contender in this space needs to address this problem, and right now.
People who are using a pre-2007 version of MS Office are facing the same problem. If someone sends you an OOXML file you just say "I cannot read this file, please use a more common file format".
I just tried it here (on Linux) and I get the following message:
Unsupported Browser
Thank you for your interest in WindizUpdate
This free website allows users of Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3, Netscape 4.0, Mozilla Firebird 0.7, Opera 5, or K-Meleon 0.9, to keep their copy of Windows up-to-date. Newer releases of these browsers are also suitable.
Are they doing an OS check or something? My browser is FF 2.0.0 so it fullfills the requirements they list.
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It's not like people are writing open source for their own ego are they?
[citation needed]
:)
Don't you mean: "do I still have a leg to blow off today? ... Nope :("
It does mean, however, that I could send an Office 2007 user an ODF document that I made with OpenOffice.org and they would be able to open it.
I see a little problem here. The key is Office 2007. It will take a while for most of the MS Office users to have switched to 2007 (SP2!) or newer, don't you think? Especially if most people don't like the new interface, as many here on Slashdot would like the world to believe.
Only those who download Firefow from the website will be counted? That would be pretty much only the Windows users, I guess.
Lots of people just use Synaptics or whatever package manager their distro provides. In my case it will be typing "emerge -avuDt world". I'm not going to download from the website just to get counted, you know.
A lot of people apply the label "Christian" to themselves. That does not mean they really deserve to wear it, though.
Disclaimer: this applies to people in general; I am not judging certain specific people here.
Immoral? What about tricking people into using a particular webbrowser by including it with your operating system?
Oh wait... It's that thing I use to browse webpages. Never mind.
Some people just 'go on the internet' without knowing what they're using.
Will this thing work on Linux?
Watch out, he throws Pringles cans!
They call this "super standards mode"? Shouldn't this be the "display-like-other-decent-browsers-do" mode?
Yeah I know, IE is nothing like other browsers. It has always done things differently and uses special names for regular things. *Sigh*
Just hope that they do not silently include a webbrowser with their updates.
Dear Mr. Gates,
I'd like to try your tools, but they do not work on my computer!
Please port them to Linux. Thank you.
Have a nice day.
...if it passes HTML validation now?
People who are using a pre-2007 version of MS Office are facing the same problem. If someone sends you an OOXML file you just say "I cannot read this file, please use a more common file format".
You can find windows updates thru http://windizupdate.62nds.com/ I hardly use IE, and this updates through Firefox.
I just tried it here (on Linux) and I get the following message:
Unsupported Browser
Thank you for your interest in WindizUpdate
This free website allows users of Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3, Netscape 4.0, Mozilla Firebird 0.7, Opera 5, or K-Meleon 0.9, to keep their copy of Windows up-to-date. Newer releases of these browsers are also suitable.
Are they doing an OS check or something? My browser is FF 2.0.0 so it fullfills the requirements they list.