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Apple and Linux Forces Rain on Windows 7 Parade
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| Apple and Linux advocate IBM both tried hard
| to cramp Microsoft's style this week before
| the Windows 7 rollout even got under way. On
| Tuesday, Apple launched a new iMac, MacBook,
| and Mac Mini line, while IBM joined with
| Linux distributor Canonical to introduce a
| new "cloud-and-Linux-based" offering called
| IBM Client for Smart Work.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/174075/apple_and_linux_forces_rain_on_windows_7_parade.html
IBM Teams With Ubuntu For Windows 7 Alternative
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| IBM Client for Smart Work is similar to
| solutions IBM has already been offering in
| other parts of the world, including Europe
| and Africa, where Linux is better accepted
| as an alternative to Microsoft Windows for
| desktop PC use, said Antony Satyadas, global
| marketing strategist for desktops at IBM.
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http://www.crn.com/software/220800148;jsessionid=RHSHFWLCNBDENQE1GHRSKHWATMY32JVN
What if you had a launch party and nobody came?
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| IBM chose to announce a tie-up with
| Canonical to punt an Ubuntu and Lotus cloud
| offering that might appear, maybe sometime
| next year. Who knows. They were quite
| explicit that they were aiming to steal
| Microsoft's thunder.
|
| Red Hat chose yesterday to meet journalists
| and declared "Microsoft was untouchable -
| until recently". Salesforce.com's Marc
| Benioff is making appearances all over
| London, including one at a Google conference
| on cloud computing.
|
| Meanwhile the tide of Fedora, Mozilla and
| Open Office betas continues unabated.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/22/win7_launch/
Recent:
Windows 7 â Itâs Vista All Over Again
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| âThere you go againâ. The Gipper said it in
| 1982, and Iâm saying it today â but about
| Windows 7, not Jimmy Carter.
|
| Because the more I play with Windows 7, the
| more I see the Vista debacle unfolding all
| over again. The commonly accepted wisdom is
| that Windows 7 is oh-so-much-better than
| Vista. Well, based on my own extensive
| testing, itâs not. Not at all.
|
| First a bit of history. Back in 2006 I was
| editor-in-chief of PC Magazine. Vista was
| coming out and we were pretty darn
| laudatory. Microsoft provided us with new
| hardware, we tested beta versions of Vista,
| and we loved it. Shortly after it shipped,
| alas, the Wow was less Now than Ow. Vista
| sucked upon release to the world for a wide
| range of reasons â not least because the
| networking and audio driver models were
| completely rebuilt in the six months prior
| to release. That led to driver problems,
| along with general instability. When I left
| PC Magazine in 2007, my parting column was
| a bit of an apology â weâd been too easy on
| what turned out to be one of Microsoftâs
| more uneven efforts.
|
| Itâs easy to get snowed. Microsoft provides
| its favored reviewers a steady stream of
| highlights, new versions, and new features
| â along with brand new hardware to run the
| new builds upon. A team of technical
| marketers inside the borg stand at the
| ready â helping the anointed work through,
| and around, any problems that develop
| during testing.
|
| [...]
|
| Weâve seen this story before. Vista was
| overhyped when it came out by everyone from
| PC Magazine to the Wall Street Journal. And
| now Windows 7 is getting the same treatment.
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http://louderback.com/2009/windows-7-its-vista-all-over-again/
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