> ... MS release a customised OS for a charitable cause, and
> suddenly they're EVIL HIDEOUS MONSTERS ON PAR
> WITH HITLER..."
It's not sudden at all. I think it's quite fair to presume this is along the same lines as MS's not-overly-friendly history. Obviously I'm hoping I'll be pleasantly surprised, but I can't see any reason to presume MS are doing this entirely out of the goodness of their hearts.
> come on guys honestly what is going to more benificial
> to them a windows machine like the vast majority of the
> world with whom they are trying to compete with are using
> and is industry standard accross the globe. or an open
> sorce distribution of some sort which may or may not be
> around in the future,"
May or may not be around in the future? XP's only just about still around...
<standard comment about the ease of support of OSS, since any developer can do it>.
I'm not sure your argument that Windows is ubiquitous everywhere else is particularly strong, either. intra-company you get issues, sure, but inter-company there are so many incompatabilities (and non-windows boxes) that everyone tends to resort to 'real' standards in any case, IME.
As for getting used to the 'wrong' UI, that changes substantially with every Windows release anyway, not a lot of point learning XP now if they're going to be forced into Vista-Lite or somesuch in two years.
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> ... MS release a customised OS for a charitable cause, and
> suddenly they're EVIL HIDEOUS MONSTERS ON PAR
> WITH HITLER..."
It's not sudden at all. I think it's quite fair to presume this is along the same lines as MS's not-overly-friendly history. Obviously I'm hoping I'll be pleasantly surprised, but I can't see any reason to presume MS are doing this entirely out of the goodness of their hearts.
> come on guys honestly what is going to more benificial
> to them a windows machine like the vast majority of the
> world with whom they are trying to compete with are using
> and is industry standard accross the globe. or an open
> sorce distribution of some sort which may or may not be
> around in the future,"
May or may not be around in the future? XP's only just about still around...
<standard comment about the ease of support of OSS, since any developer can do it>.
I'm not sure your argument that Windows is ubiquitous everywhere else is particularly strong, either. intra-company you get issues, sure, but inter-company there are so many incompatabilities (and non-windows boxes) that everyone tends to resort to 'real' standards in any case, IME.
As for getting used to the 'wrong' UI, that changes substantially with every Windows release anyway, not a lot of point learning XP now if they're going to be forced into Vista-Lite or somesuch in two years.