No browser currently has 95% of the market. The leading web browser which is deprecated, Microsoft Internet Explorer, currently only has 80% of the market, while Mozilla follows them with over 15%. Saying goodbye to 20 out of every hundred people isn't very smart IMO, especially if you are selling software, where those 20% is the more likely group of people to buy it. I estimate sites selling stuff without supporting IE reduce their sales by 20% at least as people just move on to other sites which do support their browser.
Microsoft is very anti-freedom and anti-American. Microsoft obviously just wants to lock the governments into their crap, and then have them require all the people inside the nation to use the same proprietary crap via lock-in. Governments which believe people should have freedom to choose must use open standards, not necessarily open source formats, but at least open standards. Microsoft is simpily communism. Hurry up, mod this post +5 Troll.
GPL isn't the right license for Java in my opinion. Sun, or some other group, needs to maintain control over the language to ensure what happened to HTML doesn't happen in Java (MS HTML). We don't want Microsoft to make their own proprietary version of Java and 10 years down the road, every Java program will have to be designed for a different virtual machine. We need an open source license which leaves more control for this kinda thing, as I don't want to see a fork of Java that uses its own bytecode or uses "include" instead of "import" and so on.
As long as you use a NVIDIA card, you get performance in the games mentioned under Linux then Windows. Not sure about ATI cards, but I'd imagine its the same.
My mouse must be screwed up. I just plugged it in and all 5 buttons worked once I set each one to do something in a GUI, just as I would have to do in proprietary operating systems. All the buttons work fine for me. I just plugged it in, set each button to do something, and it was easier then in Windows, where I had to go driver hunting, then install proprietary software to configure the mouse, then configure it, then it would finally work. Linux, just plug and configure. 50% less steps.
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No browser currently has 95% of the market. The leading web browser which is deprecated, Microsoft Internet Explorer, currently only has 80% of the market, while Mozilla follows them with over 15%. Saying goodbye to 20 out of every hundred people isn't very smart IMO, especially if you are selling software, where those 20% is the more likely group of people to buy it. I estimate sites selling stuff without supporting IE reduce their sales by 20% at least as people just move on to other sites which do support their browser.
Microsoft is very anti-freedom and anti-American. Microsoft obviously just wants to lock the governments into their crap, and then have them require all the people inside the nation to use the same proprietary crap via lock-in. Governments which believe people should have freedom to choose must use open standards, not necessarily open source formats, but at least open standards. Microsoft is simpily communism.
Hurry up, mod this post +5 Troll.
It better not ever encourage Safe Mode as a security feature. I perfer running in Dangerous Mode.
Google, naturally. Microsoft is the one who is more likely to steal of the two, and of course were the one.
Nobody cares about the rankings on froogle. Poor google.
+5 Informative, he did a great job informing us he didn't read beyond the green highlighted title of the story. Oh wait, thats standard on Slashdot.
GPL isn't the right license for Java in my opinion. Sun, or some other group, needs to maintain control over the language to ensure what happened to HTML doesn't happen in Java (MS HTML). We don't want Microsoft to make their own proprietary version of Java and 10 years down the road, every Java program will have to be designed for a different virtual machine. We need an open source license which leaves more control for this kinda thing, as I don't want to see a fork of Java that uses its own bytecode or uses "include" instead of "import" and so on.
As long as you use a NVIDIA card, you get performance in the games mentioned under Linux then Windows. Not sure about ATI cards, but I'd imagine its the same.
My mouse must be screwed up. I just plugged it in and all 5 buttons worked once I set each one to do something in a GUI, just as I would have to do in proprietary operating systems. All the buttons work fine for me. I just plugged it in, set each button to do something, and it was easier then in Windows, where I had to go driver hunting, then install proprietary software to configure the mouse, then configure it, then it would finally work. Linux, just plug and configure. 50% less steps.