concepts wrote: > «I hope those are tempered Windows or else a Ubuntu impact could make > them shatter! > > Would be interesting perhaps to host one of those and be like "See, this > is Windows 7, and now let's put our Ubuntu installation CD...."» > > Would that make it a *WINDEX* party? > André. > > I realize that we all have a leaning towards Linux, but we should not become Linux Bigots. Microsoft is foremost a for profit company, and as such, will use warfare to destroy the competition. I have not seen or tried windows7, but in fact, it may be a very good product. I believe it was produced by Novell for Microsoft, and uses much of the knowledge gained from SUSE to be re-implemented in W7.
Microsoft Office is a very good product, and it is a market leader. Thus, to benefit from MSOffice, you may need to be under a Windows environment. If MSOffice loses the exclusivity, through being forced to support ODF, then the door is open to other software products that could do better then just imitating MS word, Excel, etc. That may open the doors a lot wider for Linux. If windows7 is good, it will probably become my desktop machine. It all depends on costs and my business needs. Right now, the word on the net is that UBUNTU is what MS fears the most. That is why the UBUNTU announcement release date was chosen by MS to conflict and reduce the UBUNTU impact. (Reporters cant be in two places at once). You can be sure that even the hours of the release parties (and refreshments) will conflict. My two cents. Leslie _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
