...but my distro (SuSE 10.2) does the exact same thing as Windows when I press F1. She got an excellent score and would probably be able to find solutions to her problems in matter of minutes on Google.
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Linux is not Windows... and that's the whole point of Linux, if it was Windows we wouldn't need it.
A far better solution vould be to require the sw vendors to obey the security model to get the Windows approwal stamp... and hunt any vendor down if they put an approwal mark without obeing the security model.
Give the next version away. Use the slogan "We're showing Windows the door".
DejaVu... I'm quite sure I've seen this behavior somewhere before... ahhh, yes... IBM OS/2 Warp3
You are right... many complex financial apps. has been rewritten to.NET in the last years... when Windows dies a lot of companies will be in really deep shit.
...usually xBSD and Linux distros outperforms those two. ...and btw. it is not enough to look who patches first... you must look at the quality of a patch and what potential new problems are caused by a patch.
We can't... BSD isn't dying, some guy in Cupertino discovered it and put it in a all new silver case... and want everybody to pay for it... and got quite a success with it.;-) Yes I know it is a truth with some modifications...
No, not really. Several countries around the world do require support for "an open and ISO certified document standard" now, which Microsoft Office can't deliver. ...and companies, even big ones, will not fight any government.
...from the stranglehold of standards and move into some fun new technologies. Yes let's do it as a complete new network... matbe a dual fiber ring topology with packets traveling in opposite directions and it should maybe be with a small, fixed packet size for faster switching. Oh wait... that sounds familiar.
Thats funny how people think that "closed source on Linux" is a big problem: IBM does it, Oracle does it, and we do pay for it... and we don't booo... Adobe got prebuilt universal Linux i386 binaries for Acrobat Reader...
...try to release a version of Photo Shop for Linux... ...but they are probably afraid of chairs flying in their general direction.
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They are releasing it because ECMA has promised ISO that either those binary formats referenced in the OOXML spec. will be released or the references will be removed from the spec. If they remove those references then they will be without a compliant product. ...and Microsoft needs that ISO certification really badly now, there are too many governments requiring a ISO certification.
That happened to me last time (and first, since it was my first holiday in the US) i was in a WalMart store... they've got those cute small penguin PC's.
It will start to matter when governments start to require a fully ISO standard compliant products... No corporation will use MS' non-compliant product if they need an extra step to communicate with the government. Right now MS do not have a ISO compliant product... and they don't have an ISO approved standard, so nobody is really using the new format... until today we have only seen one docx file, everyone is using either the old doc format or pdf.
...promised better interoperatibility to the EU... However we all do understand that providing interoperatibility between such broken product as IE and W3C compliant browsers must be very hard for the biggest software company in the world.
Most of those patents would by in the category "Bloody obvious" or "Prior art" which is quite clear when you look at Microsoft's patents. Then there would be some in the MS-networking category but it would be foolish to use them because it would violate the "agreement";-) with the EU. ...and Microsoft is very well aware of this.
Microsoft's intentions are obvious: scare anyone they can from using Linux based products.
Microsoft is fucking scared right now because neither MS Office 2007 nor the 2003 plugin support the version of OOXML which is the version that may be approved by ISO... that is with all the corrections made by ECMA after the last vote. I'm btw. shocked that neither/. nor Groklaw has anything about the corrected OOXML case.
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Yeah... and you just need one thing to replace every MS product you mentioned...
...that one thing is Lotus Notes.
...but my distro (SuSE 10.2) does the exact same thing as Windows when I press F1.
She got an excellent score and would probably be able to find solutions to her problems in matter of minutes on Google.
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Linux is not Windows... and that's the whole point of Linux, if it was Windows we wouldn't need it.
A far better solution vould be to require the sw vendors to obey the security model to get the Windows approwal stamp...
and hunt any vendor down if they put an approwal mark without obeing the security model.
WE don't have to believe them... we just need our executives to believe them...
Give the next version away. Use the slogan "We're showing Windows the door".
DejaVu... I'm quite sure I've seen this behavior somewhere before... ahhh, yes... IBM OS/2 Warp3
You are right... many complex financial apps. has been rewritten to .NET in the last years... when Windows dies a lot of companies will be in really deep shit.
That's one of Microsofts biggest problems: the marketing dept. has too much influence on development.
...and it saves you laptop battery too, as a extra free bonus (if you use the light gray as the desktop color).
...usually xBSD and Linux distros outperforms those two.
...and btw. it is not enough to look who patches first... you must look at the quality of a patch and what potential new problems are caused by a patch.
...to be just like SELMA (from Time Trax).
Shouldn't it be a "Yes, it runs on Linux" sticker ?
Nope... he left the building... I wonder why nobody really want to realize that ?
The correct name is:
Baaaaaallmer!!!
...almost 100% silent (at least Hitachi's Travelstar drives), most of the noise is generated by the fan(s).
We can't... BSD isn't dying, some guy in Cupertino discovered it and put it in a all new silver case... and want everybody to pay for it... and got quite a success with it. ;-)
Yes I know it is a truth with some modifications...
No, not really. Several countries around the world do require support for "an open and ISO certified document standard" now, which Microsoft Office can't deliver.
...and companies, even big ones, will not fight any government.
...from the stranglehold of standards and move into some fun new technologies. Yes let's do it as a complete new network... matbe a dual fiber ring topology with packets traveling in opposite directions and it should maybe be with a small, fixed packet size for faster switching.
Oh wait... that sounds familiar.
Thats funny how people think that "closed source on Linux" is a big problem: IBM does it, Oracle does it, and we do pay for it... and we don't booo...
Adobe got prebuilt universal Linux i386 binaries for Acrobat Reader...
...try to release a version of Photo Shop for Linux...
...but they are probably afraid of chairs flying in their general direction.
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sig. has left... may be back later.
They are releasing it because ECMA has promised ISO that either those binary formats referenced in the OOXML spec. will be released or the references will be removed from the spec. If they remove those references then they will be without a compliant product.
...and Microsoft needs that ISO certification really badly now, there are too many governments requiring a ISO certification.
That happened to me last time (and first, since it was my first holiday in the US) i was in a WalMart store... they've got those cute small penguin PC's.
It will start to matter when governments start to require a fully ISO standard compliant products... No corporation will use MS' non-compliant product if they need an extra step to communicate with the government.
Right now MS do not have a ISO compliant product... and they don't have an ISO approved standard, so nobody is really using the new format... until today we have only seen one docx file, everyone is using either the old doc format or pdf.
...promised better interoperatibility to the EU...
However we all do understand that providing interoperatibility between such broken product as IE and W3C compliant browsers must be very hard for the biggest software company in the world.
Most of those patents would by in the category "Bloody obvious" or "Prior art" which is quite clear when you look at Microsoft's patents. ;-) with the EU.
Then there would be some in the MS-networking category but it would be foolish to use them because it would violate the "agreement"
...and Microsoft is very well aware of this.
Microsoft's intentions are obvious: scare anyone they can from using Linux based products.
- If they win they don't have a product which supports the improved OOXML standard and the standard is much more open to others.
- If they loose they don't have an office suite that supports an ISO certified standard.
That's why they are looking for a scapegoat now.Microsoft is fucking scared right now because neither MS Office 2007 nor the 2003 plugin support the version of OOXML which is the version that may be approved by ISO... that is with all the corrections made by ECMA after the last vote. /. nor Groklaw has anything about the corrected OOXML case.
I'm btw. shocked that neither