1) The format is open and not subject to change/closure at the whim of a company (generally controlled by a standards body).
Microsoft is going to break this one anyway, and without getting punished for it. They don't need to change the specification, just their own implementation. And then suddenly nobody that actually followed the specification is able to read documents produced in MS office.
Yikes! Over at PC Mag, John C. Dvorak, Lance Ulanoff, and now Jim Louderback are mean-mouthing Vista, saying nice things about the Mac and threatening to jump ship to either Linux or Mac. That's PeeCee Magazine!!! The end is near, I tell you!!!
Apparently there are more people reading Distrowatch with Vista than they are with Debian, so I guess all this nonsense about Vista being a flop is far from true.
This just means that we will soon have twice as many Linux users as before...
I maintain my position that Vista is just a new XP skin. I've heard a lot of talk about how parts were rewritten from the ground up - networking especially.
It seems that they have indeed done some work with the networking. Now it works even less than before.
This article made my day. I have heard this happening all around me, but the media has kept on praising FUBAR OS. Let's hope that this is not the last time it happens.
For all you skeptics out there: If this means that Xen is going closed source, we still have KVM. KVM is growing features faster than any other VM AFAIK. And if Xen stays open source, then all is good anyway.
Personally I think they can burn in a warm place, like my fireplace, a blast furnace or, if you are religious, hell. Blocking a web browser with 25% of the market is just playing stupid. A little advertising income is better than none. I would think that firefox users would rather not visit their site than change browser.
You don't need a million dollars. I know Microsoft is a rip-off, but 1 million for the Xbox 360? Don't think so... But then again they use PowerPC CPUs.
"The worlds most secure operating system" should not be susceptible to 95% of the worlds malware and viruses. Nor should it have a password hashing standard that can be broken in less than 20 minutes. And it should not bug the user with questions for "extra security".
In it's current form, Linux could never become Darth Vader. Open Source just doesn't work that way. If someone starts to play evil, somebody else will take over the code and use it for good. A good example is Novell. They have started their way down the "path to the dark side", then canonical comes along and plays nice, and grows at triple the speed.
"Open source vendors have to recognize that Windows is here to stay and that together with Microsoft it will form a duopoly in the market for operating systems."
Wrong. Windows might not be here to stay. If Linux would ever reach a reasonable market share, Windows would be as good as buried within a few years.
AFAIK, Firefox got 25% of the browser market (from web statistics) also. Does this mean that 100% of users download, since only 25% are "active users"? This seems flawed.
I am not afraid to debate it. I have seen Americans saying that they think terrorists are going to take over USA. The truth is that the US is the worlds most powerful military state. Nobody can take over America in the foreseeable future.
The war on terror is overblown. It's not like Muslim extremists are going to take over USA anytime soon... (Don't laugh, a lot of Americans think that this will happen if they pull out of Iraq...)
The war on terror is really a war against your rights, so be ware. This is much worse than even MS ME II.
1. Manageability: all custom and homebrew solutions aside, I am unaware of a framework that allows corporate system administrators to change a setting on all of their Linux PC's at the same time (or, enforce a certain configuration). On Windows this is done through GPO's or third-party tools (SMS, Altiris,...). A uniform desktop is important in any serious environment (or do you really want to overload your company's helpdesk with 200 different Linux configurations?).
2. Support: when things go wrong, you can point your finger at Microsoft and ask a $1500 dollar-per-day Microsoft consultant to come fix whatever is broken.
Again, Canonical got support deals for most parts of the world.
3. Windows administrators are abundant: managing a Linux server and desktop park might be a piece of cake for Slashdot-readers, but on the job market, a worthy knowledge of Linux (that goes beyond the GUI installation of SuSe or plainly using Ubuntu) is hard to find. On the other hand, Windows administrators come in thousands and are replaceable. This is important for IT managers who don't want to rely on 2 or 3 people with a very specific knowledge (from a job-market point of view).
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No, they are talking about using a new flash version to stream h.264 embedded in flash...
What's the deal with everybody forgetting the ???? step? You know, if you were working as a CEO, your company would be bankrupt by now.
This article made my day. I have heard this happening all around me, but the media has kept on praising FUBAR OS. Let's hope that this is not the last time it happens.
For all you skeptics out there: If this means that Xen is going closed source, we still have KVM. KVM is growing features faster than any other VM AFAIK. And if Xen stays open source, then all is good anyway.
He probably doesn't even have a Tivo.
This just proves that OOXML is not needed (yet). Everybody continues to use .doc or odf.
Personally I think they can burn in a warm place, like my fireplace, a blast furnace or, if you are religious, hell. Blocking a web browser with 25% of the market is just playing stupid. A little advertising income is better than none. I would think that firefox users would rather not visit their site than change browser.
Ubuntu 7.10 will come with AppArmor. It is a really good way to secure individual apps.
You don't need a million dollars. I know Microsoft is a rip-off, but 1 million for the Xbox 360? Don't think so... But then again they use PowerPC CPUs.
Ubuntu Server is freely available from Ubuntu.com. It is also maintained by the community.
Ehm... Microsoft owns Apple (literally).
Well he said he made Linux, not GNU/Linux, so you should be happy...
And understand. The companies that voted for OOXML are:
- Apple
- The Department of Homeland Security
- EIA
- EMC
- HP
- Intel
- Microsoft(!)
- Sony
How many of those are Microsoft partners, retailers, or Microsoft itself?
"The worlds most secure operating system" should not be susceptible to 95% of the worlds malware and viruses. Nor should it have a password hashing standard that can be broken in less than 20 minutes. And it should not bug the user with questions for "extra security".
In it's current form, Linux could never become Darth Vader. Open Source just doesn't work that way. If someone starts to play evil, somebody else will take over the code and use it for good. A good example is Novell. They have started their way down the "path to the dark side", then canonical comes along and plays nice, and grows at triple the speed.
"Open source vendors have to recognize that Windows is here to stay and that together with Microsoft it will form a duopoly in the market for operating systems."
Wrong. Windows might not be here to stay. If Linux would ever reach a reasonable market share, Windows would be as good as buried within a few years.
FUD! No they don't. They are paid by Google to use Google as the default browser. They get something like 50 million dollars a year.
AFAIK, Firefox got 25% of the browser market (from web statistics) also. Does this mean that 100% of users download, since only 25% are "active users"? This seems flawed.
I am not afraid to debate it. I have seen Americans saying that they think terrorists are going to take over USA. The truth is that the US is the worlds most powerful military state. Nobody can take over America in the foreseeable future.
The war on terror is overblown. It's not like Muslim extremists are going to take over USA anytime soon... (Don't laugh, a lot of Americans think that this will happen if they pull out of Iraq...)
The war on terror is really a war against your rights, so be ware. This is much worse than even MS ME II.
Canonical got a system called Landscape (http://www.ubuntu.com/news/landscape-system-mana
Again, Canonical got support deals for most parts of the world.
You win.