"Windows Services for Unix -The first product developed by the India Development Center provides a comprehensive suite of interoperability products that make it easy for customers to integrate Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP into existing Unix Environment."
"The new features and enhancements provide a rich opportunity for someone to participate in designing tests for what is essentially a new operating system on top of the Windows NT kernel."
"Your job is actually to test and deliver a UNIX-like operating system which adheres to the POSIX industry standards."
One might speculate that a server version of NT is going to be delivered without the regular shell, and this instead.
Well written? I'd say this has been written by the Gentoo marketing department. Not that I don't like 'em, but just look at the phrases and read 'marketing speak'...
Thinking up new stuff is really fun, and probably the main cause of all those libraries popping up. Hobbyists will do this fun stuff all the time, but these people are paid do to an entirely different job.
Don't forget they've been assigned mostly clean-up, ready for commercial rollout jobs. They are not designing completely new libraries (except for maybe that accessability thing).
This is surely not nullifying the efforts done by beta testers. They are simply blocking applications that have been found to be incompatible by testers. Now that doesn't seem all that bad, does it?
Microsoft has been contacting all vendors that got blacklisted, and I guess that's what the 'working with Microsoft' meant. And surely Microsoft wants those firewalling products to run, because otherwise people might just try Linux and find it works!
Of course it can, just as anyone could get Linux to refuse running anything existing from e.g. Borland. It's easy.
But don't forget that Microsoft isn't preventing you from running most of these apps. Any program that wil not surely fuck up your system can be run with the click of a button (for example, you can not run the Windows 2000 or 98 setup programs). I don't know about those firewalling products, but when they're incompatible, they're incompatible, and you should not run them.
Isn't it just good that Microsoft has been contacting all of those vendors to make sure they can update their programs? And they do provide links to web sites et al in those dialogs.
Fair enough, Linux does about everything you want on the server side. But Windows doesn't just add a 'few multimedia buttons', but also usability! I just installed Debian for the first time since some time ago, and I definately wouldn't give that CD to my mother and let her try it (oh, and X still hangs on me now).
That said, Windows XP doesn't add much in usability to Windows 2000. It does boot much faster btw:)
Why are you anonymous? Why is your caps lock stuck?
Gimme a break. I posted two comments which can definitely be seen as trolls, but they are also to the point (okay, maybe a little off-topic). Besides, I wouldn't mind those posts being mod'ded down, but this post was definately not a troll.
How can you publish such a biased comment? The article from TheReg clearly states that Microsoft is working with exactly those vendors to solve compatibility problems. And that is probably just because the programs previously used hacks to accomplish their tasks.
"We've been working closely with Microsoft - BlackIce is widely used inside Microsoft - in order to make sure it works well," Rob Graham, founder of NetworkIce told us.
Well, I guess they would make W2k drivers before Linux drivers, but as they haven't even gotten around to do just that, it's not very surprising there aren't any Linux drivers.
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Seems even more odd to me: Interix Test Lead
"Windows Services for Unix -The first product developed by the India Development Center provides a comprehensive suite of interoperability products that make it easy for customers to integrate Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP into existing Unix Environment."
"The new features and enhancements provide a rich opportunity for someone to participate in designing tests for what is essentially a new operating system on top of the Windows NT kernel."
"Your job is actually to test and deliver a UNIX-like operating system which adheres to the POSIX industry standards."
One might speculate that a server version of NT is going to be delivered without the regular shell, and this instead.
Am I missing something? Isn't just TESTING the thing all that's needed? I mean, put in a couple of thousand of votes and check the outcome?
Well written? I'd say this has been written by the Gentoo marketing department. Not that I don't like 'em, but just look at the phrases and read 'marketing speak'...
Thinking up new stuff is really fun, and probably the main cause of all those libraries popping up. Hobbyists will do this fun stuff all the time, but these people are paid do to an entirely different job.
Don't forget they've been assigned mostly clean-up, ready for commercial rollout jobs. They are not designing completely new libraries (except for maybe that accessability thing).
Microsoft has been contacting all vendors that got blacklisted, and I guess that's what the 'working with Microsoft' meant. And surely Microsoft wants those firewalling products to run, because otherwise people might just try Linux and find it works!
But don't forget that Microsoft isn't preventing you from running most of these apps. Any program that wil not surely fuck up your system can be run with the click of a button (for example, you can not run the Windows 2000 or 98 setup programs). I don't know about those firewalling products, but when they're incompatible, they're incompatible, and you should not run them.
Isn't it just good that Microsoft has been contacting all of those vendors to make sure they can update their programs? And they do provide links to web sites et al in those dialogs.
That said, Windows XP doesn't add much in usability to Windows 2000. It does boot much faster btw :)
Gimme a break. I posted two comments which can definitely be seen as trolls, but they are also to the point (okay, maybe a little off-topic). Besides, I wouldn't mind those posts being mod'ded down, but this post was definately not a troll.
"We've been working closely with Microsoft - BlackIce is widely used inside Microsoft - in order to make sure it works well," Rob Graham, founder of NetworkIce told us.
Cool as in cool Sci-fi, not cool beer ;)
You sound like a little child.
Uuuh, not quite. ECMA is the standards body that kinda controls C#, but also CLI, so it's more than C# alone they're talking about in the article.
... Visual Basic itself is now 10 years old!
Well, I guess they would make W2k drivers before Linux drivers, but as they haven't even gotten around to do just that, it's not very surprising there aren't any Linux drivers.