None. The PDC build is unbearably slow, and there isn't much new from a user perspective. Without the beta Whidbey and the SDK there is no reason to run Longhorn as it is now.
True, my point is just that Phoenix seems to be blowing their own horn here more than anything, it doesn't seem that this is a vast MS conspiracy as everyone thought at first.
And Gates seems to equate popularizing and market domination with inventing, dunno why.
"To be honest, I haven't heard from Phoenix Technologies for over five years," Gates said. "Are they still in business? The BIOS will always be separated from the operating system. Actually, it's gotten out of date. If you run Windows XP, it calls very little of the BIOS."
With my Linksys AP I used to turn this on, and then exempt my static IPs, my theory being if someone cracked my WEP key then they'd be presented with the Linksys "you don't have whatever av installed" screen. But then I figured spoofing my exempt IPs would be easy enough, so I stopped doing this.
No, doesn't seem to. If I go to passport.net and click sign in with Firebird I get an HTML login page. If I do the same in IE6 I get a password dialog box, a 'richer' experience if you will. This seems to be the direction MS is going with things, and I for one welcome it, stuff plays with everything but Windows 'enhances' your experience.
In response to a question about whether Microsoft plans a version of Office for the Linux operating system, Ballmer said no, but "never say never. But we have no current plans and don't see that as an interesting opportunity."
Ballmer said the market for Linux on client systems is still small. "It's smaller than the market for the Mac. The Mac is a nice, small business for Microsoft. But it is a small business. If someone says you have an opportunity to support a new platform that's less popular than the Mac, I'm not sure that is a good starting point," he said.
"People aren't used to paying for software on Linux. This isn't about religion, it's about business. We need to figure out what they need to get done and what they will pay for," Ballmer said.
So provided that Redhat and Novell succeed even marginally in their enterprise endeavours, and you just might see Microsoft port some things.
It's going to be interesting to watch Novell and Redhat in the enterprise desktop space. I think in 2 years or less, once there are more commercial apps avail. for these two distros, there may well be serious competition for corporate desktops.
I think Microsoft sees this coming as well, I've now read two interviews with Ballmer where he was asked about Office for Linux, and he replied not at this time, but never say never. Then you have the Mono project... Anyway it's going to be interesting.
No, I didn't say proficient, I said able to use. Anyone who has used Windows before will be able to navigate KDE/Gnome without issue, they might not utilize the environment to it's fullest, but the fundamental things are the same.
The experience I got with computers at school was useless(Windows 3.11 (this was 95-99) and Paint on MacOS somethingreallyold, oh and typing on an Apple ][), I highly doubt there are many people out there that can attribute learning anything much about computers in the k-12 system. And really Windows is the prominent desktop OS. And if you can get around in Windows than OSX and Linux won't be difficult. It's high time that Linux proponents accept that Windows owns, and will continue to own the consumer desktop market, and focus on where Linux is and can be strong, servers, enterprise desktop, and devices.
For Linux to work in the consumer desktop space there almost has to be one standardized, inflexible, not oft updated distribution, and I think many of the proponents of Linux on the desktop would bitch about that just as much as they do Windows now. Joe six-pack just wants to watch streaming porn, play games, and look at stupid PowerPoint slides his friend sent. He doesn't give a flying fuck about open source Radeon drivers, free as in speech, nifty CLI tricks, or multiple desktops.
So to my mind introducing students to Windows, and probably only Windows, isn't a bad thing that's what they're probably going to end up using, and GUIs between the three aren't vastly different anyway.
I sorta disagree with you there. A Redhat install, assuming the user is not dual booting, is just as easy as Windows. I noticed that the PDC Longhorn build install is pretty streamlined with very few options, but my assumption there is that the installer isn't fully implemented.
I think flexibility is one the reasons Linux has a low desktop presence. When I install any distro I spend so much time trying to get things working, trying to get things to look just so, and trying to install cool looking project x that I never really end up doing anything other than eventually screwing up the install to the point I don't know enough to fix it. With Windows I install, spend a while patching, turn off crap I don't like, and start doing whatever, because it's not flexible enough for me to seriously screw it up.
I thought I was alone in liking Point Break. I'd say it might be the best action movie ever made, and now that I've thought about it I notice it's finally on DVD. Hooray!
It is well documented. However at this point in computing I don't think you should need to have 13 pages of documentation to install an operating system.
I use AVG antivirus free edition, google for it. As far as firewalls go I have a Linksys WiFi AP that blocks everything inbound, and I don't tend to worry about outbound. I think BlackIce Defender is a free Windows firewall though.
A lot of what I've read about the PS3 seems to make it sound destined to be a high profile disaster (same goes for the PSP), I expect Microsoft to take the lead in the next generation, and Nintendo to either go software only or be assimilated by that other Redmond company. Sony is headed for a fall, they are getting to cocky and to ambitious.
From my reading about Longhorn and from playing around a bit with the PDC build of it, I think Longhorn will resolve many security issues. Managed code should eliminate many buffer overflow vulnerabilities, the firewall is on by default, and it sounds like Run as is going to become more prevalent and convenient to use. Stability (which in all fairness hasn't been a major issue for me in either 2000 or XP) should also be improved since the rumor I've heard is drivers are being removed from kernel level. MS seems to be borrowing certain aspects from the OSS community as well, both in that the Longhorn development cycle is more open than previous versions of Windows, and many of the new features in Longhorn seem to smack of features found in OSS. The sidebar is similar in many ways to Gnome's applets, Run as is similar to su/sudo (this exits is XP/2000, but it's a PIA, I'm hoping it gets better to the point I actually use it), XAML seems similar to XUL, etc. Hopefully IE will have tabbed browsing by release time as well.
All in all I think 2006 is going to bring us three quality contenders for a desktop OS, all with their own strong points, and hopefully less of their previous weaknesses.
It's kind of funny, you can check out news.com.com in the morning and predict most of the day on slashdot, and in most cases the kind of posts those stories will generate as well.
That's a function of Microsoft using Akamai to cache their sites. Rest assured that Microsoft themselves have been running 2003 Server for quite some time now.
IIRC MacBU is located in Microsoft's Silicon Valley campus, so I sort of doubt these G5s were intended for OS X development.
My guess is someone is pissed off that there are pictures out there implying that if you can find the loading dock around MSCopy there might well be unattended hardware to run off with.
If you're in Texas as someone mentioned they will charge sales tax, and here in Tennessee they have several facilities as well (I think they build the Inspirons here), so you pay sales tax. When I purchased my iBook I paid sales tax too because there is an Apple store located on the other side of the state.
And if by chance there was a very mainstream Linux distro in use 3 years from now half of slashdot would be attacking it for doing whatever it did to be mainstream and telling everyone to move to Gentoo/Debian/something else.
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This is broadcast TV isn't it? How many people watch over the air TV anyway?
None. The PDC build is unbearably slow, and there isn't much new from a user perspective. Without the beta Whidbey and the SDK there is no reason to run Longhorn as it is now.
True, my point is just that Phoenix seems to be blowing their own horn here more than anything, it doesn't seem that this is a vast MS conspiracy as everyone thought at first.
And Gates seems to equate popularizing and market domination with inventing, dunno why.
"To be honest, I haven't heard from Phoenix Technologies for over five years," Gates said. "Are they still in business? The BIOS will always be separated from the operating system. Actually, it's gotten out of date. If you run Windows XP, it calls very little of the BIOS."
Rest of article here
With my Linksys AP I used to turn this on, and then exempt my static IPs, my theory being if someone cracked my WEP key then they'd be presented with the Linksys "you don't have whatever av installed" screen. But then I figured spoofing my exempt IPs would be easy enough, so I stopped doing this.
I thought SAP was the king of ERP software.
No, doesn't seem to. If I go to passport.net and click sign in with Firebird I get an HTML login page. If I do the same in IE6 I get a password dialog box, a 'richer' experience if you will. This seems to be the direction MS is going with things, and I for one welcome it, stuff plays with everything but Windows 'enhances' your experience.
In response to a question about whether Microsoft plans a version of Office for the Linux operating system, Ballmer said no, but "never say never. But we have no current plans and don't see that as an interesting opportunity."
Ballmer said the market for Linux on client systems is still small. "It's smaller than the market for the Mac. The Mac is a nice, small business for Microsoft. But it is a small business. If someone says you have an opportunity to support a new platform that's less popular than the Mac, I'm not sure that is a good starting point," he said.
"People aren't used to paying for software on Linux. This isn't about religion, it's about business. We need to figure out what they need to get done and what they will pay for," Ballmer said.
So provided that Redhat and Novell succeed even marginally in their enterprise endeavours, and you just might see Microsoft port some things.It's going to be interesting to watch Novell and Redhat in the enterprise desktop space. I think in 2 years or less, once there are more commercial apps avail. for these two distros, there may well be serious competition for corporate desktops.
I think Microsoft sees this coming as well, I've now read two interviews with Ballmer where he was asked about Office for Linux, and he replied not at this time, but never say never. Then you have the Mono project... Anyway it's going to be interesting.
No, I didn't say proficient, I said able to use. Anyone who has used Windows before will be able to navigate KDE/Gnome without issue, they might not utilize the environment to it's fullest, but the fundamental things are the same.
The experience I got with computers at school was useless(Windows 3.11 (this was 95-99) and Paint on MacOS somethingreallyold, oh and typing on an Apple ][), I highly doubt there are many people out there that can attribute learning anything much about computers in the k-12 system. And really Windows is the prominent desktop OS. And if you can get around in Windows than OSX and Linux won't be difficult. It's high time that Linux proponents accept that Windows owns, and will continue to own the consumer desktop market, and focus on where Linux is and can be strong, servers, enterprise desktop, and devices.
For Linux to work in the consumer desktop space there almost has to be one standardized, inflexible, not oft updated distribution, and I think many of the proponents of Linux on the desktop would bitch about that just as much as they do Windows now. Joe six-pack just wants to watch streaming porn, play games, and look at stupid PowerPoint slides his friend sent. He doesn't give a flying fuck about open source Radeon drivers, free as in speech, nifty CLI tricks, or multiple desktops.
So to my mind introducing students to Windows, and probably only Windows, isn't a bad thing that's what they're probably going to end up using, and GUIs between the three aren't vastly different anyway.
I sorta disagree with you there. A Redhat install, assuming the user is not dual booting, is just as easy as Windows. I noticed that the PDC Longhorn build install is pretty streamlined with very few options, but my assumption there is that the installer isn't fully implemented.
I think flexibility is one the reasons Linux has a low desktop presence. When I install any distro I spend so much time trying to get things working, trying to get things to look just so, and trying to install cool looking project x that I never really end up doing anything other than eventually screwing up the install to the point I don't know enough to fix it. With Windows I install, spend a while patching, turn off crap I don't like, and start doing whatever, because it's not flexible enough for me to seriously screw it up.
I thought I was alone in liking Point Break. I'd say it might be the best action movie ever made, and now that I've thought about it I notice it's finally on DVD. Hooray!
It probably is, it should just be easier to get there.
It is well documented. However at this point in computing I don't think you should need to have 13 pages of documentation to install an operating system.
I use AVG antivirus free edition, google for it. As far as firewalls go I have a Linksys WiFi AP that blocks everything inbound, and I don't tend to worry about outbound. I think BlackIce Defender is a free Windows firewall though.
A lot of what I've read about the PS3 seems to make it sound destined to be a high profile disaster (same goes for the PSP), I expect Microsoft to take the lead in the next generation, and Nintendo to either go software only or be assimilated by that other Redmond company. Sony is headed for a fall, they are getting to cocky and to ambitious.
I read somewhere fairly recently that Redhat was going to release a Enterprise workstation that would be supported for people in your situation.
From my reading about Longhorn and from playing around a bit with the PDC build of it, I think Longhorn will resolve many security issues. Managed code should eliminate many buffer overflow vulnerabilities, the firewall is on by default, and it sounds like Run as is going to become more prevalent and convenient to use. Stability (which in all fairness hasn't been a major issue for me in either 2000 or XP) should also be improved since the rumor I've heard is drivers are being removed from kernel level. MS seems to be borrowing certain aspects from the OSS community as well, both in that the Longhorn development cycle is more open than previous versions of Windows, and many of the new features in Longhorn seem to smack of features found in OSS. The sidebar is similar in many ways to Gnome's applets, Run as is similar to su/sudo (this exits is XP/2000, but it's a PIA, I'm hoping it gets better to the point I actually use it), XAML seems similar to XUL, etc. Hopefully IE will have tabbed browsing by release time as well.
All in all I think 2006 is going to bring us three quality contenders for a desktop OS, all with their own strong points, and hopefully less of their previous weaknesses.
It's kind of funny, you can check out news.com.com in the morning and predict most of the day on slashdot, and in most cases the kind of posts those stories will generate as well.
That's a function of Microsoft using Akamai to cache their sites. Rest assured that Microsoft themselves have been running 2003 Server for quite some time now.
IIRC MacBU is located in Microsoft's Silicon Valley campus, so I sort of doubt these G5s were intended for OS X development.
My guess is someone is pissed off that there are pictures out there implying that if you can find the loading dock around MSCopy there might well be unattended hardware to run off with.
If you're in Texas as someone mentioned they will charge sales tax, and here in Tennessee they have several facilities as well (I think they build the Inspirons here), so you pay sales tax. When I purchased my iBook I paid sales tax too because there is an Apple store located on the other side of the state.
Yeah, but Apple decided to be a niche player by not licensing the OS to 3rd parties.
And if by chance there was a very mainstream Linux distro in use 3 years from now half of slashdot would be attacking it for doing whatever it did to be mainstream and telling everyone to move to Gentoo/Debian/something else.