OT: Microsoft layoffs

[James Finstrom]

I have had decent luck with crossover. It is not free software (but it was
free as in beer for a day) I don't actually do much with it as I have been
clean from windows so long I actually had to go seek out apps to install in
it because I didn't use any windows apps. I was able to run googles new
browser via the crossover guys and to have Photoshop on Linux thanks to
crossover so the few apps I find useful or the apps i wanna mess with
because they are suppose to be the coolest thing since canned beer it seems
to work. I am not a gamer in fact the last PC game I played was Duke Nukem
and that lasted all of 10 minutes so I cant speak much to that aspect. If
you are one of those WOW people I hear that runs in crossover but I couldn't
say for sure.


James Finstrom
Rhino Equipment Corp.
http://rhinoequipment.com ~ http://postug.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rhinoequipment





On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Honestly i liked vista, i ran the beta and it was weird but there were
> a number of thigns, the weird started to fade away as MS released
> backwards compatability patches and software developers wrote their
> code to be more compatible. Windows 7 is looking to fix a few of my
> bigger complaints of Vista (running slimmer and without as much
> overhead). but some of the same weirdness is ricgh back on the block
> regarding driver and software compatability.
>
> I get this, it is a beta, and to stay bleeding edge this is soemthing
> im more than willing to deal with.
>
> I also ran my Desktop that is running windows 7 as a full linux
> machine for a couple motnhs as a test to see what i cna and cant get
> away with. in the meantime i really liked it as a desktop environment,
> learned a great deal about it as a workstation, but also realised i
> have certain needs in my job that just cannot be circumvented with
> wine/vm. so back to windows i go.
>
> but at home once i get a new video card im all over it.
>
> Heck my boss and i talk about the delight of running/administering a
> 100% opensource network. firewall to desktop. and we do some real
> studies about how much of your personal needs you can replace with
> opensource software. and i can get pretty darn close. so can he.. we
> just  have a few apps we are trying to sort out.
>
> for me the difficulty comes in i am a gamer... and well most of the
> gams i play are windows based... so i either need to get really
> creative with wine or dual boot.
>
> I personally would like to see a fork of the wine project that will
> merge the two.. so your wine install ties into an existing windows
> install so you can attempt to run applications from a dual booted
> environment. but i think thats a digression.
>
> The big hurt on MS is really that people dont like change, and for a
> long time MS didnt change much. win 95 -> 98 -> ME and NT 3.x -> NT4
> -> Win 2k -> win XP didnt chang emuch.. peopel had more or less the
> Same UI and admin needs and whatnot available for about13 years now.
> and MS is telling them sorry to keep things going you have to change
> to this new UI and backend? sorry peopel stayed with windows over
> unix/linux not becuase of any great love of MS its their desire to not
> change and learn something new.
>
> thats been the biggest grive about an OS upgrade of anyone i have
> talked with... its different they have to relearn things.
>
> now vista and windows 7 come along...
>
> thats why MS is laying ppl off. that and the fact nobody can aford to
> buy a new OS OEM pricing of windows home basic is about 80 bux not
> calculating discounts and then vor vista ultimate its about 200.
> windows 7 will be about the same.
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