Ehhr, i dont know which europeans youve met but there are a bunch to choose from. Where i come from, Sweden (not swaziland in africa or switzerland), almost all people are extremely USA friendly. Ask anyone that has been an exchange student here, almost as if they wore celebritys. Microsoft in under the magnifier because of the possibility that they get a complete control over the market. If that would happen Ms could charge pretty much anything they wanted for their software and would make it even harder for an uppstarter to get into the market. It has absolutely nothing to do with anti american behaviour. Lets face it, EU is an attempt to copy the success the USA have had with its economy. But there is no reason to remake the bad things that the states have done, better to learn from them? Sorry for my english, you can laugh all day but i would like to see you type in swedish;)
The fact that Microsoft is even involved in the assosiation doing this poll is evidence enough to me. But wasnt this poll on microsoft.com at first? Then i suppose every MCSE have been there and all employees and relatives too. It would be fun to know exactly how many people answered the question and how many of them who was non Ms related. But the bottom issue is, breake the law, get punished. If the law is bad, change it but not when a big company begs for it AFTER they screwed up.
When i was 8 years old my father brought home a computer from his work. It think it was a NCR PC4, 10mb HD 8008 CPU (the 4bit cpu before 8088). I just remembered it never failed, not once. No matter what i did it was impossible to break it and it still works today. The first time i saw a computer crash was on a 386 due to memory problems. Since then things has really gone downhill. I really cant tell you when things started to get really bad but i remembered how frustrated i was when i installed W95 for the first time. There i was used to just leave the computer running all day and night long cause my father learned me that its when a HD spins up or down its mustly worn (this was the times when you loaded the program once). With windows you couldnt leave the computer for more than half a day. I think people has gotten pretty much used to computers not working, its kind of a standard now in a way. The old computers shouldnt be laughed at cause may of them is probably better engineered than most of todays crashnburn boxes.
One would think that they should have deployed wide intensive security testing while still in developement. Especially whit their bad reputation in security thinking in the past. The sadest part of it all that really sickens me is that most people buying it wont even care. I met a Network technichian a couple of days ago when applying for a job that didnt know what Novell was?!. Not that Novell is THE os to every purpose but i thought that IS staff was well educated. Maybe Microsoft has noticed this and has calculated that security doesnt pay since most people wanting security wont get near W2000. Do i have to say that i declined the employment? =)
I think GUI all comes down to how you look at a computer. What is a computer to me? Is it a cewl toy to dig into and tweak just about every possible setting in the system? Or is it, as to most normal users just a tool to help them to do their stuff as easy as possible with least possible hassle? I think of a computer as mearly a tool like a wrench or whatever, and as for now Apple is the only bigger company i know of who focus on making computers simple to normal users. Its inevitable that the computers start to adapt to man and not vice versa. And M$, making it possible to copy a file in a zillion ways isnt to make it easy.
Wrong about no one knows what AD is. Novell has worked side by side with Microsoft for a long time now and knows AD as good as Microsoft does. They have tested it and made clients for NDS and integrated AD into NDS so they probably knows a great deal about it. A fact is that it STILL is domains, buried under a tree ontop, hence the strange DNS "adjustments".
It can be called outright FUD cause they point out even the adresses where Microsofts own papers state the same things. What they do is to point out where the problems are and how AD differs from NDS so that people wont see them as real competitors. All stated about AD is true, they havent been forced to make things up cause the problems are there to point at. Remember that NDS to had some problems in the beginning(but NDS was in fact much more advanced than AD in the beginning to). Also have in mind that Novell probably has more information than most people about AD since they have both clients and NDS for W2000 servers ready. Novell has tried really hard to play fair with microsoft but after the MS FUD about Novells products they probably got real fed up and starts to get back.
Novell uses dos to point on the start of the kernel and to load drivers to for example a disk array. You put dos, server.exe and the drivers on an ide disk and the rest on anything that can store data. It doesnt hamper performance at all since dos isnt used at all after it has started. It sorta works like loadlin. They could remake it but it has worked just splendid over past years so they havent had a reason to do so. If it works, dont fix it like. Remember that novell mainly consists of techies who dont care a bit about how it looks, rather how it works.
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Ehhr, i dont know which europeans youve met but there are a bunch to choose from. Where i come from, Sweden (not swaziland in africa or switzerland), almost all people are extremely USA friendly. Ask anyone that has been an exchange student here, almost as if they wore celebritys. Microsoft in under the magnifier because of the possibility that they get a complete control over the market. If that would happen Ms could charge pretty much anything they wanted for their software and would make it even harder for an uppstarter to get into the market. It has absolutely nothing to do with anti american behaviour. Lets face it, EU is an attempt to copy the success the USA have had with its economy. But there is no reason to remake the bad things that the states have done, better to learn from them? Sorry for my english, you can laugh all day but i would like to see you type in swedish ;)
The fact that Microsoft is even involved in the assosiation doing this poll is evidence enough to me. But wasnt this poll on microsoft.com at first? Then i suppose every MCSE have been there and all employees and relatives too. It would be fun to know exactly how many people answered the question and how many of them who was non Ms related. But the bottom issue is, breake the law, get punished. If the law is bad, change it but not when a big company begs for it AFTER they screwed up.
When i was 8 years old my father brought home a computer from his work. It think it was a NCR PC4, 10mb HD 8008 CPU (the 4bit cpu before 8088). I just remembered it never failed, not once. No matter what i did it was impossible to break it and it still works today. The first time i saw a computer crash was on a 386 due to memory problems. Since then things has really gone downhill. I really cant tell you when things started to get really bad but i remembered how frustrated i was when i installed W95 for the first time. There i was used to just leave the computer running all day and night long cause my father learned me that its when a HD spins up or down its mustly worn (this was the times when you loaded the program once). With windows you couldnt leave the computer for more than half a day. I think people has gotten pretty much used to computers not working, its kind of a standard now in a way. The old computers shouldnt be laughed at cause may of them is probably better engineered than most of todays crashnburn boxes.
One would think that they should have deployed wide intensive security testing while still in developement. Especially whit their bad reputation in security thinking in the past. The sadest part of it all that really sickens me is that most people buying it wont even care. I met a Network technichian a couple of days ago when applying for a job that didnt know what Novell was?!. Not that Novell is THE os to every purpose but i thought that IS staff was well educated. Maybe Microsoft has noticed this and has calculated that security doesnt pay since most people wanting security wont get near W2000. Do i have to say that i declined the employment? =)
I think GUI all comes down to how you look at a computer. What is a computer to me? Is it a cewl toy to dig into and tweak just about every possible setting in the system? Or is it, as to most normal users just a tool to help them to do their stuff as easy as possible with least possible hassle? I think of a computer as mearly a tool like a wrench or whatever, and as for now Apple is the only bigger company i know of who focus on making computers simple to normal users. Its inevitable that the computers start to adapt to man and not vice versa. And M$, making it possible to copy a file in a zillion ways isnt to make it easy.
Wrong about no one knows what AD is. Novell has worked side by side with Microsoft for a long time now and knows AD as good as Microsoft does. They have tested it and made clients for NDS and integrated AD into NDS so they probably knows a great deal about it. A fact is that it STILL is domains, buried under a tree ontop, hence the strange DNS "adjustments".
It can be called outright FUD cause they point out even the adresses where Microsofts own papers state the same things. What they do is to point out where the problems are and how AD differs from NDS so that people wont see them as real competitors. All stated about AD is true, they havent been forced to make things up cause the problems are there to point at. Remember that NDS to had some problems in the beginning(but NDS was in fact much more advanced than AD in the beginning to). Also have in mind that Novell probably has more information than most people about AD since they have both clients and NDS for W2000 servers ready. Novell has tried really hard to play fair with microsoft but after the MS FUD about Novells products they probably got real fed up and starts to get back.
Novell uses dos to point on the start of the kernel and to load drivers to for example a disk array. You put dos, server.exe and the drivers on an ide disk and the rest on anything that can store data. It doesnt hamper performance at all since dos isnt used at all after it has started. It sorta works like loadlin. They could remake it but it has worked just splendid over past years so they havent had a reason to do so. If it works, dont fix it like. Remember that novell mainly consists of techies who dont care a bit about how it looks, rather how it works.