Now Novell's got Microsoft as a partner. Any problems, they go to Microsoft. Trouble with the bill? They can go to Microsoft. Trouble with the cops, deliveries, Tommy, they can call Microsoft. But now Novell's gotta come up with Microsoft's money every week no matter what. Business bad? Fuck you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? Fuck you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning huh? Fuck you, pay me.
Although I think I probably *could* get my dad to use Linux, I never would come close to doing such a thing. It would require an asinine amount of support, just for doing day to day ops that he can easily handle in Windows. ALthough I am all for pushing linux, I am also about my personal laziness, which happens to come first in this scenario.
I installed Vista (can't remember what build, pretty sure it was the latest one) on my 3 yr. old desktop a couple of weeks ago. I was never able to get the sound to work on either the on-board audio or the soundblaster PCI card. When I tried installing the drivers it errored out and then crashed.
Granted, it is still in beta, but you would think at least one of them could work.
From TFA:
"The ribbons have a dual purpose: to highlight features that users are likely to use most often or want most (but have trouble finding), and to promote features at the point they're most useful."
Aparrantly Clippy is now a "ribbon". I, for one, am glad they have included this feature. Clippy always knew what I wanted to learn about in Office, and I am sure this will be just as helpful and un-annoying.
They would all have to open the file to get infected. Cleaning the infected machines would still take less time than going through the pain of a MS office to open office migration.
Supporting a 100% open office environment in a world where 99% of other companies use MS Office would be a nightmare from a support standpoint.
+4 Funny? Everytime there is any MS vulnerability somebody makes this stupid patch joke and links to the OSS equivalent. If anything it should be modded redundant.
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Why is this listed in games.slashdot.org? I know it mentions the development teams that worked on the XBOX 360, but that really isn't the focus.
They are not talking about dual booting; they are talking about inter-operation between the two OS's.
Now Novell's got Microsoft as a partner. Any problems, they go to Microsoft. Trouble with the bill? They can go to Microsoft. Trouble with the cops, deliveries, Tommy, they can call Microsoft. But now Novell's gotta come up with Microsoft's money every week no matter what. Business bad? Fuck you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? Fuck you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning huh? Fuck you, pay me.
Nobody would ever say this if Microsoft did the same thing verbatim. Just an observation.
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Ah, yes, Slashdot. Where a discussion of internet copyright issues invariably ends up in a call for coup d'etat.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/de fault.mspx
I'm assuming you don't have these computers on a domain, in which case use a GPO.
Although I think I probably *could* get my dad to use Linux, I never would come close to doing such a thing. It would require an asinine amount of support, just for doing day to day ops that he can easily handle in Windows. ALthough I am all for pushing linux, I am also about my personal laziness, which happens to come first in this scenario.
At $150 per support call to bangalore, I find it hard to believe that they really lose money on a support call.
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No. There is only one genuiune copy of Windows XP.
I installed Vista (can't remember what build, pretty sure it was the latest one) on my 3 yr. old desktop a couple of weeks ago. I was never able to get the sound to work on either the on-board audio or the soundblaster PCI card. When I tried installing the drivers it errored out and then crashed.
Granted, it is still in beta, but you would think at least one of them could work.
From TFA: "The ribbons have a dual purpose: to highlight features that users are likely to use most often or want most (but have trouble finding), and to promote features at the point they're most useful." Aparrantly Clippy is now a "ribbon". I, for one, am glad they have included this feature. Clippy always knew what I wanted to learn about in Office, and I am sure this will be just as helpful and un-annoying.
They would all have to open the file to get infected. Cleaning the infected machines would still take less time than going through the pain of a MS office to open office migration. Supporting a 100% open office environment in a world where 99% of other companies use MS Office would be a nightmare from a support standpoint.
I can't think anything more fun than converting thousands of Office installations to Open Office.
That is going to work great for remote offices.
+4 Funny? Everytime there is any MS vulnerability somebody makes this stupid patch joke and links to the OSS equivalent. If anything it should be modded redundant.