They'll will never stop, it's too much fun! I trust you read the stuff on patching (look under Yikes!) I hope you didn't mean it literally when you said you deleted the old kernel and got the new one. Good luck!
I believe that they make their money from selling the alpha processor and not the operating system, so in effect, they don't care which operating system you use, if it encourages you to buy an alpha processor.
There have been rumours for quite some time, but now for the first time there is concrete evidence: Microsoft is porting its popular Office Software to Linux. c't (German computer magazine) found out from a reliable source that a separate department in Redmond has been built for this project. According to the information, Microsoft has assigned 37 developers to the porting (project). Microsoft is expected to announce the porting during the CeBit (computer fair in Hannover, Germany) and announce a date for when it will be ready. The software giant has fallen far behind in the Linux application market; The Office Products of other developers have long been available. Hamburg's Star Division has even made its Star Office freely available for non-commercial use. Whether Microsoft is willing to use a similar marketing concept, waits to be seen. In any case, it is normal business practice for the Windows Company to offer Application Software for competing operating systems. For many years, Microsoft has earned a lot of money for (MS) Office for the MacOS. John Kacur
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They'll will never stop, it's too much fun!
I trust you read the stuff on patching (look under Yikes!) I hope you didn't mean it literally when you said you deleted the old kernel and got the new one.
Good luck!
I believe that they make their money from selling the alpha processor and not the operating system, so in effect, they don't care which operating system you use, if it encourages you to buy an alpha processor.
There have been rumours for quite some time, but now for the first time there is concrete evidence: Microsoft is porting its popular Office Software to Linux. c't (German computer magazine) found out from a reliable source that a separate department in Redmond has been built for this project. According to the information, Microsoft has assigned 37 developers to the porting (project).
Microsoft is expected to announce the porting during the CeBit (computer fair in Hannover, Germany) and announce a date for when it will be ready. The software giant has fallen far behind in the Linux application market; The Office Products of other developers have long been available. Hamburg's Star Division has even made its Star Office freely available for non-commercial use. Whether Microsoft is willing to use a similar marketing concept, waits to be seen. In any case, it is normal business practice for the Windows Company to offer Application Software for competing operating systems. For many years, Microsoft has earned a lot of money for (MS) Office for the MacOS.
John Kacur