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____/ Terry Porter on Wednesday 18 Nov 2009 09:51 : \____
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:41:40 -0800, JeffM wrote:
>
>>>>Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>What is the best Windows?
>>>>>
>>>JeffM wrote:
>>>>[...]TinyXP[...]M$ doesn't get any money from it
>>>>
>> Homer wrote:
>>>In fact Microsoft do benefit from piracy[...] the short-term effect of
>>>excluding competition at a loss
>>
>> I was assuming a situation where
>> 1) I have one mandated app that just wouldn't run under WINE. 2) I'm
>> looking hard for a replacement for that app.
>> or trying to convince TPTB to switch to a FOSS app.
>> 3) I run Windoze in a virtual machine under Linux
>> so things have the smallest exposure to M$'s crap code.
>
> In those cases you have no choice but to run Windows, and as MS makes no
> money, you've done all you can imho.
>
> Given the fact that the 'cracked' free (as in beer) versions of XP are
> easy to find on the Internet, (and are faster, leaner, and less hassle
> than the legal but no longer supported XP) I doubt MS will *ever* see the
> halycon days of windows revenue again anyway.
I think there were services for running Windows apps over the network, but
Microsoft shut them down last year (IIRC). You can figure out why.
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