An interview with matthew
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| Learning a new operating system is work. With some patience and a willingness
| to try to wrap your head around a new way of thinking, it can also be fun and
| rewarding.
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http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/an-interview-with-matthew/
Related:
Vistification - a temporoary drive to Linux?
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| Rupert's just said again what I've been hearing in various places:
| Vista's awkwardness is going to drive people to Linux.
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| That's something I heard when Specavers moved to Linux. They'd been thinking
| about moving before, but there was always a barrier - the cost of retraining.
|
| Vista is gratuitously different from Windows XP. So different that it will
| take as much retraining (Vistification?) to get a user started on Vista, as
| it would to get them shifted to Linux. On Rupert's experience, probably more.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006251o-2000469549b,00.htm
The Importance Of Being An Idiot
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| When I first started learning Unix/Linux at the beginning of my career, I
| felt stupid quite a bit, and was afraid to ask questions as there was a
| culture that scoffed at “stupid questions”. Why don’t you read the
| manual, “idiot”?
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http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/09/the_importance_of_being_an_idi.html
Bold Redesign Improves Office 2007 But Learning Curve May Be Too Steep for
Some Users
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| "it requires a steep learning curve that many people might rather avoid.
| In my own tests, I was cursing the program for weeks"
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116786111022966326-T8UUTIl2b10DaW11usf4NasZTYI_20080103.html
Partners Fix Up Office 2007 and Windows Vista
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| On Friday, Addintools, based in Hai-nan, China released Classic Menu for
| Office 2007, after more than six months of beta testing. The user interface
| enhancement does what Office 2007 can't: Revert to the Office 2003 look and
| feel.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/channel/partners_fix_up_office_2007_and_windows_vista.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
Desktop Faceoff: Fedora vs. Vista
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| Fedora and its default GNOME desktop may still have a few lessons to learn
| from Vista, particularly in the selection of administration tools. Yet in
| terms of almost everything that's important to users, Fedora and GNOME have
| overtaken Vista and are rapidly pulling away from it.
|
| As the addition of the side panel shows, it is Windows that is starting to
| learn from GNU/Linux. The days when the situation was the other way around
| are over.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3694206
Trying Another OS? Use Your Windows Knowledge as a Fast Track to the Commands
You Need
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| The Tom's Hardware website features the Universal Command Guide for Operating
| Systems page, based on the book of the same name by Guy Lotgering and the
| Universal Command Guide (UCG) Training Team. The UCG web page builds on your
| knowledge of your favorite operating system's commands to teach you the
| equivalent(s) in others.
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http://www.maximumpc.com/article/trying_another_os_use_your_windows_knowledge_as_a_fast_track_to_the_commands_you_need
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