More like a swan song
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| moopst Feb 03, 2009 4:48 PM EDT |
Maybe they'll realize that the tail lights they're seeing is FOSS going in directions that M$ would never follow. Like secure software, open formats, libraries that can be updated because you aren't chained by old binaries. At best it will be Windows trying to slim down and look like it might be able to run on more hardware. |
| Scott_Ruecker Feb 03, 2009 6:56 PM EDT |
Quoting:At best it will be Windows trying to slim down and look like it might be able to run on more hardware. You mean XPv2 then? Because only Microsoft would have to re-issue an 8 year old OS (that they proclaimed they were no longer going to sell no matter what) so that a Microsoft Operating System would be able to 'fit' on brand new hardware otherwise known as 'netbooks'. Its just plain sad. The best thing they could do is backpedal on their "No more XP, except for netbooks or anything else Vista won't fit on" policy and let people buy, or "upgrade" to (I can't believe I am saying it) good ol' XP again. I am in no way trying to compliment Microsoft, but XP is the best OS they ever put out. Like it or not, like MS or not, its true. After 8 years of fixes and updates, its not too bad...for Microsoft..;-) |
| rijelkentaurus Feb 03, 2009 7:41 PM EDT |
I preferred Windows 2000, myself. There are a lot of Linux guys out there who jumped the MS ship when XP came out. 2000 was the last not-in-your-face OS they had. It wasn't great and it wasn't secure, but it didn't bark at you or claim it wasn't genuine...it just worked (as far as an MS OS can work). |
| jdixon Feb 03, 2009 8:39 PM EDT |
> I preferred Windows 2000, myself. Ditto. Product activation killed any appeal XP might have had for me. |
| Sander_Marechal Feb 03, 2009 9:11 PM EDT |
Not only that but XP just has too many holes waiting in loose ends. Too many features that can still contain holes. Win98 was pretty good but the kernel sucked. Win2K is basically Win98 with an NT kernel. Much better. ... all the above relative to MS standards of course. |
| Steven_Rosenber Feb 03, 2009 9:23 PM EDT |
Right now I see Windows doing better and better in the netbook market. If they can hold the line on processor- and memory-sucking services in Windows 7, netbook hardware will be powerful enough to run the OS sooner than we all think. The key for Linux (or any FOSS OS that wants to try, for that matter) is SELLING the whole idea of a managed distribution with a huge, safe, continually updated software repository. If the average Windows user knew that just about every app you'd ever want to install could be done so without random downloads of dubious .exe files, I bet a whole lot of them would have no problem switching to Linux. Once we work out: video (both watching and editing it), CODECs (again with the video, audio, too), the all-important iPod (and probably iPhone, too), then we'll be way closer. If that Firefox/ogg video thing works and somehow catches on (and if there are good tools to create/edit ogg -- there very well could be, but I don't know about them), that's a huge step. |
| jezuch Feb 04, 2009 2:57 AM EDT |
Quoting:If that Firefox/ogg video thing works and somehow catches on (and if there are good tools to create/edit ogg -- there very well could be, but I don't know about them), that's a huge step. Yes. Maybe, just maybe, for the first time ever we'll see popular pages appearing that tell "I'm sorry, you need the latest version of Firefox (preferrably in Linux) to watch this movie" ;) |
| tracyanne Feb 04, 2009 3:29 AM EDT |
Silverlight is going to be a huge driver of Windows Server sales for rich media web applications. Creating dynamic media using Silverlight tools/.Net is almost trivially easy, and Silverlight enabled media loads almost instantly, unlike flash, and works just fine on Linux |
| Sander_Marechal Feb 04, 2009 5:06 AM EDT |
Quoting:Right now I see Windows doing better and better in the netbook market. Just wait for the ARM netbooks. That will be a Linux driver. ARM machines are quite a bit cheaper and last longer (in terms of power usage). Windows can't run on ARM :-) |
| NoDough Feb 04, 2009 9:19 AM EDT |
>> Yes. Maybe, just maybe, for the first time ever we'll see popular pages appearing that tell "I'm sorry, you need the latest version of Firefox (preferrably in Linux) to watch this movie" ;) I see the smiley and realize that you said that in jest. All the same I think its important to point out that such a message would be a bad thing. Web content should be built around open standards, not around browsers (or operating systems.) |
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