On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Denny Stamos <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Not quite. You can't run Vista on netbooks. On the other hand, you can run Win7 on most netbooks available today. > > 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. > Leslie, please back this up with facts. > > 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 > -- :(){ :|:& };:
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