I agree with the first poster. I upgraded my system from Dapper to Edgy yesterday without any glitches. The Opera comment in the original "article" left me confused as to what exactly the browser problem was, and it leads me to wonder if there wasn't some user error involved.
From what I have heard so far, upgrading to Edgy is not nearly as traumatic or apocalyptic as some people have made it seem. I would be curious to see what these people who are having trouble are running and what the config of their machines looks like.
It would seem that this issue is irrelevant. Google does not compile ages of users in their search queries, or at least as far as I know. Thus the government would not be able to identify which of it is being accessed illegally and what is legal. This seems like another bureacratic attempt to track what the American people do and say. Unfortunately we can't isolate Bush as the problem either; the government has been doing this for quite some time.
Hurray for democracy.
Since it seems that we have thoroughly beaten the horse to death I won't take any more swings at it but I will offer this article as a reference point (my apologies if someone else posted it).
ZD Net reported on 1 March about businesses and even governments migrating away from Microsoft's products http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39 020384,39189585,00.htm.
It's interesting to see how Microsoft has panicked and tried to reverse those decisions. Perhaps the U.S. Government should really rethink this one. It seems like there is a parallel in the sports world when a team signs an older free agent. Either it turns out that, half way through the season, he really is old and gets injured or he turns out to be the athlete who has trained hard and is still successful. This could prove true if Microsoft corrects some of their major problems, but we could also see Microsoft futher decline in quality and security and find that the government is taking the hit for it.
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I agree with the first poster. I upgraded my system from Dapper to Edgy yesterday without any glitches. The Opera comment in the original "article" left me confused as to what exactly the browser problem was, and it leads me to wonder if there wasn't some user error involved.
From what I have heard so far, upgrading to Edgy is not nearly as traumatic or apocalyptic as some people have made it seem. I would be curious to see what these people who are having trouble are running and what the config of their machines looks like.
It would seem that this issue is irrelevant. Google does not compile ages of users in their search queries, or at least as far as I know. Thus the government would not be able to identify which of it is being accessed illegally and what is legal. This seems like another bureacratic attempt to track what the American people do and say. Unfortunately we can't isolate Bush as the problem either; the government has been doing this for quite some time. Hurray for democracy.
Since it seems that we have thoroughly beaten the horse to death I won't take any more swings at it but I will offer this article as a reference point (my apologies if someone else posted it). ZD Net reported on 1 March about businesses and even governments migrating away from Microsoft's products http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39 020384,39189585,00.htm.
It's interesting to see how Microsoft has panicked and tried to reverse those decisions. Perhaps the U.S. Government should really rethink this one. It seems like there is a parallel in the sports world when a team signs an older free agent. Either it turns out that, half way through the season, he really is old and gets injured or he turns out to be the athlete who has trained hard and is still successful. This could prove true if Microsoft corrects some of their major problems, but we could also see Microsoft futher decline in quality and security and find that the government is taking the hit for it.