FWIW Muse does not use any "secret", or undocumented parts of the Windows interface.
(During my time in the Windows Systems group in MS I never came across any interfaces that were intended to be secret. What I did find were places where an app had been developed to an early-version interface that we in Windows had thought better of and replaced in the released product by something that worked better. Meanwhile the guys in the apps group didn't feel much like rewriting *their* stuff just because we were too stupid to have all our second thoughts first. So the thing would be left in but undocumented). Of course, there may have been secrets that I wasn't told (almost "by definition of secret"). L. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Chambers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 3:58 AM Subject: Re: [abcusers] The virtues of handling music graphically Rick writes: | "Laurie (ukonline)" wrote: | | > No, sorry - no Linux version. | > | > (You mean Linux doesn't have a Windows emulation subsystem!!) | | Shudder!!! (To the backdrop of loud wailing and gnashing of teeth!!) ;-) Well, actually, it does have several. Wine and Lindows come to mind. They both do have limitations, though, related to the fact that Windows' inner workings are secret. There are Microsoft products that use undocumented parts of the OS, and it's real hard to do a proper emulation of things that you aren't permitted to know anything about. One of the linux news stories lately has been Microsoft's attempt to squash Lindows by burying them with legal costs. MS claims that "Lindows" is a trademark infringement. Supposedly it is similar enough to "Windows" to cause confusion on the part of their customers. This has, naturally, led to a lot of humor. Suggestions that it's true; MS's customers generally aren't smart enough to tell the difference. And Microsoft is also filing suit against several major real estate firms for selling houses that contain windows not licensed by Microsoft. That sort of thing. There's also a cute followup suit from the BE OS people, claiming that Windows ME infringes their name. After all, "ME" differs in only one letter from "BE". They point to the Lindows suit as evidence that Microsoft itself agrees with the principle. There's some strange humor in these circles ... To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
