Bah Bigotry ? nope just a firm believer in free software and an OS that I dont have to reinstall every 6 months. Its good to laugh at Microsoft, god knows I put up with enough anti Linux jokes at work! they just dont learn.
Anyhow...Windows7 ? Its built on top of Vista, the hardware requirements are still the same. Leslie if you really absolutely need to run a Windows OS then by all means Windows7 will be ok. And I dont think Novell produced Windows7 ?? They probably had their input into making it more compatible with Linux. But really copying Ubuntu release parties?, what will they do after that? have SP1, SP2 Release parties?, yay lots of fun! On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Leslie Satenstein<[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Tired of WindowsXP? try Ubuntu! http://www.ubuntu.com/ _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
