Roy Schestowitz wrote:
The Ghost In The Machine on Thursday:
Dusty Hendrix wrote:
"The Ghost In The Machine" wrote...
A rant, indeed a rant.
Yet another COLA bozo who makes his living writing
proprietary Microsoft software but then complains how evil
Windows is.
OK, so you're on record as not liking alternatives, then?
Good.
Let me know when Microsoft puts Symbian out of business.
Last I heard Symbian has about 70% of the mobile OS market.
That is correct. Microsoft is good at PR, so it was successful
at pretending that desktop PCs /WERE/ the computer. Should it
not matter that there are several billions of smart phones
(miniature PCs) out there? Microsoft is very,very good at PR
(poker face). It manages to convinced people that only an O/S
(even for phones) with "Shutdown" under some "Start" menu at
the bottom-left corner of the display is the 'standard'-- the
only standard which is 'user friendly' (read: like Windows).
But guess what? After about 10 years in the field and huge
spending (losses too, which they hid by combining divisions),
Microsoft has only 6% market share in this area.
Future is in virtualisation and thin clients. It is easier to
manage a handful of "terminal servers" serving thin clients
instead of a slew of thick clients.
In April last year, Microsoft did an "about face" and now is
working to support thin clients, albeit at roughly twice the cost
of their thick client licenses. They are not yet supporting per
user license. (One has 1,000 machines but only 500 users must
pay 1,000 licenses, not 500.)
There are merits in this as the servers maintain the software, an
upgrade to a server upgrades all thin clients. Also having
software managed at server level has better control over viruses,
trojans, root kits, etc. Server can't be back doored or
"bypassed" through an infected thick client, since thin client is
essentially a terminal. Backups are simplified since they are
done as server level. It is inherently easier to backup user files.
This is where Linux shines. With Linux running an alternative to
Windows API's to run software applications negates the need for
the Windows operating system. Vista is the best thing that ever
happened to Linux.
Microsoft. Where did you want to go today?
I still remember Corel Linux showing, "Where do you want to go
tomorrow?" when mouse was hovered over the "Start" button. :-)
Anywhere which is warmer. Scottt Douglas lives in Canada and I
think that the cold weather prevents blood from reaching all
of his brain cells.
As Microsoft and some major software houses with heavy Microsoft
ties will not want "food taken off their plate" (AKA maintain the
monopoly), the FUD campaigns against Linux and other alternative
operating systems will continue.
Best form of freedom is for people to simply try Linux and other
FOSS software out, judge for themselves.
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HPT
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