I gotta agree with you. Bad grammar, typos, and spelling mistakes aside this "interview" reads more like a bad collection of posts from the xbox.com forums. Nothing new but what everyone else has guessed ALREADY. The last half was basically speculation and hearsay. Then again this is the interwebs... There was even such a high level of disbelief expected the author felt the need to quailfy his own credentials in an attempt to make this garbage sound real.
Nice to see someone here who "get's it." Everything has its place somewhere but on the corporate desktop/data center Linux/OSS may not always be the best answer. We even get machines shipped from our big vendor already imaged so the setup time is nothing. If they were willing to do that would we switch to anything else? Probably not and because of everything else you point out. AD was a pain to implement but when running an all MS shop with AD, Exchange, Live Comm Server(IM), etc. and having just one place to go to admin all of it is something that can't be turned away from easily when supporting thousands of users. Especially in these times where head counts are kept low and admin time is at a premium. I'm sure something will eventually fill this space with just as much ease but right now it's one of the better ways to go.
Actually for XP it was SP1. They had to add the part to allow the changes to the default handlers of such things as the JVM, browser, mail client, etc. This functionality has been in for some time.
The Linux community LOL!! Should be reworded; people who have nothing better to do with their time but pursue a personal vendetta against a faceless giant for reasons they can't even substantiate. Leave the FOSS community out of this. It's zealots like you that give it a bad name.
An exactly how is that any different from any other browser on the market? The most 'innovative' thing I have seen since Cello, that is readily user identifiable, is tabbed browsing. Everything is a copy of something else.
That quote still has me laughing out loud. Oh man the lack of any basis in reality that is portrayed by a statement like that is hilarious. Hint: Big companies don't die they are sold off in pieces or bought in their entirety by another entity. And with the headway that Microsoft is making outside of the shortsited zealots world means they are here to stay for much much longer.
How true. And what most of the more 'evangelical' of the supporters don't seem to realize is that their overzealousness hurts more than it helps. Realize that there is a place and time for everything and you'll go a long way towards furthering your goal.
I'd be interested to know if there are any. I have not tried Firefox with JRE 1.5 but as of the last release of both Firefox (1.0PR) and Java (1.4.4 or something) the handling of it and JS in Firefox was so poor that it made me switch back to IE.
Or people who downloaded it to multiple locations such as work and home. The release was also within a day or so of a secuirty announcement so everyone was going to rush to upgrade all of their installs.
Ahh but to a business it is. I'm not sure if you are aware but most corporate IT groups at some point in their chain of command end up reporting to finance. Accountants could care less about whiz bang technological tricks, they just want to know what it is going to cost.
The fact that the F/OSS community isin't targeting MS's biggest cash cow, corporations, but having free events in underdeveloped countries and claiming victories over MS is silly at best. What business model would you like to see changed? The one where people do things for free and the goverment provides them with their needs. Might need to pick up a book on Marxism to support that one. This is just more proof that if you never figure it out then you'll never have anything to adapt to but die anyway.
RTFA it was only a contract signed by PC manufactures. I would not call them the majority of Japanese companies. They also lump electronic device manufactures into this group in the article so saying they had no other choice does not work either. There are plenty of Linux and propriety based devices.
Wow, what color is the sky in your world? Sure, we are all programmers who love to patch other people's mistakes. It's that kind of techno-elite thinking that keeps OSS firmly in second place. You don't write software for you, you write it for them. Come down from the mount and play with the rest of us.
So I should let the Mozilla.org choose for me what I get to see and what makes me secure without offering my choice? Doesn't sound very appealing to me. I'd prefer to make the choice myself as would most.
Why not educate them some as well? The spyware/adware/viruii have far less to do with their browser and more to do with their lack of education. I used IE for years and never had any issue with spy/adware but I knew when to say no.
Or any NAT router or a decent hardware based firewall etc. And I'd rather it be some proprietary OS like Cisco IOS so I don't have to worry about securing my OS to secure my OS.
"Seriously, Gnome is not Linux, KDE is not Linux. The ever-increasing familiar Linux desktop is not the actual operating system, mmmmkay?"
Get used to it. For years Windows was considered an OS when it was nothing more than a GUI on top of DOS. You wanted more exposure for Linux this is the kind of nomenclature you'll have to swallow.
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I gotta agree with you. Bad grammar, typos, and spelling mistakes aside this "interview" reads more like a bad collection of posts from the xbox.com forums. Nothing new but what everyone else has guessed ALREADY. The last half was basically speculation and hearsay. Then again this is the interwebs... There was even such a high level of disbelief expected the author felt the need to quailfy his own credentials in an attempt to make this garbage sound real.
Nice to see someone here who "get's it." Everything has its place somewhere but on the corporate desktop/data center Linux/OSS may not always be the best answer. We even get machines shipped from our big vendor already imaged so the setup time is nothing. If they were willing to do that would we switch to anything else? Probably not and because of everything else you point out. AD was a pain to implement but when running an all MS shop with AD, Exchange, Live Comm Server(IM), etc. and having just one place to go to admin all of it is something that can't be turned away from easily when supporting thousands of users. Especially in these times where head counts are kept low and admin time is at a premium. I'm sure something will eventually fill this space with just as much ease but right now it's one of the better ways to go.
They won't tell you for security and I'm sure IP reasons. They have said it in their own forums enough times.
Actually for XP it was SP1. They had to add the part to allow the changes to the default handlers of such things as the JVM, browser, mail client, etc. This functionality has been in for some time.
The Linux community LOL!! Should be reworded; people who have nothing better to do with their time but pursue a personal vendetta against a faceless giant for reasons they can't even substantiate. Leave the FOSS community out of this. It's zealots like you that give it a bad name.
An exactly how is that any different from any other browser on the market? The most 'innovative' thing I have seen since Cello, that is readily user identifiable, is tabbed browsing. Everything is a copy of something else.
That quote still has me laughing out loud. Oh man the lack of any basis in reality that is portrayed by a statement like that is hilarious. Hint: Big companies don't die they are sold off in pieces or bought in their entirety by another entity. And with the headway that Microsoft is making outside of the shortsited zealots world means they are here to stay for much much longer.
How true. And what most of the more 'evangelical' of the supporters don't seem to realize is that their overzealousness hurts more than it helps. Realize that there is a place and time for everything and you'll go a long way towards furthering your goal.
Even Firefox isin't safe. I recommend just following step c of your plan.
In a perfect world maybe. No solution is that wasy.
I'd be interested to know if there are any. I have not tried Firefox with JRE 1.5 but as of the last release of both Firefox (1.0PR) and Java (1.4.4 or something) the handling of it and JS in Firefox was so poor that it made me switch back to IE.
Or people who downloaded it to multiple locations such as work and home. The release was also within a day or so of a secuirty announcement so everyone was going to rush to upgrade all of their installs.
Ahh but to a business it is. I'm not sure if you are aware but most corporate IT groups at some point in their chain of command end up reporting to finance. Accountants could care less about whiz bang technological tricks, they just want to know what it is going to cost.
Nice way to take a related issue to the company and leave out the important facts to make your point.
The fact that the F/OSS community isin't targeting MS's biggest cash cow, corporations, but having free events in underdeveloped countries and claiming victories over MS is silly at best. What business model would you like to see changed? The one where people do things for free and the goverment provides them with their needs. Might need to pick up a book on Marxism to support that one. This is just more proof that if you never figure it out then you'll never have anything to adapt to but die anyway.
Why should it be way longer? Maybe you can let us know what reproducable and verifiable bugs they missed.
Easy there tiger! No point to miss, it's called a joke.
And say hello to segmentation faults and core dumps! woohoo!!
RTFA it was only a contract signed by PC manufactures. I would not call them the majority of Japanese companies. They also lump electronic device manufactures into this group in the article so saying they had no other choice does not work either. There are plenty of Linux and propriety based devices.
Wow, what color is the sky in your world? Sure, we are all programmers who love to patch other people's mistakes. It's that kind of techno-elite thinking that keeps OSS firmly in second place. You don't write software for you, you write it for them. Come down from the mount and play with the rest of us.
So I should let the Mozilla.org choose for me what I get to see and what makes me secure without offering my choice? Doesn't sound very appealing to me. I'd prefer to make the choice myself as would most.
Why not educate them some as well? The spyware/adware/viruii have far less to do with their browser and more to do with their lack of education. I used IE for years and never had any issue with spy/adware but I knew when to say no.
Or any NAT router or a decent hardware based firewall etc. And I'd rather it be some proprietary OS like Cisco IOS so I don't have to worry about securing my OS to secure my OS.
I just got it from Windows Update. Maybe they don't have a package ready for you to work with but it is available.
"Seriously, Gnome is not Linux, KDE is not Linux. The ever-increasing familiar Linux desktop is not the actual operating system, mmmmkay?" Get used to it. For years Windows was considered an OS when it was nothing more than a GUI on top of DOS. You wanted more exposure for Linux this is the kind of nomenclature you'll have to swallow.