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[News] Jean-Louis GassÃe Sees Trouble for Microsoft; âMicrosoftâs irrelevance is taken for grantedâ

  • Subject: [News] Jean-Louis GassÃe Sees Trouble for Microsoft; âMicrosoftâs irrelevance is taken for grantedâ
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:56:11 +0100
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Ballmer just opened the Second Envelope

,----[ Quote ]
| You know the business lore joke. The 
| departing CEO meets his successor and 
| hands him three envelopes to be opened in 
| the prescribed order when trouble strikes. 
| First crisis, the message in envelope #1 
| says: Blame your predecessor. Easy enough. 
| Another storm, the the CEO opens the 
| second envelope: Reorganize. Good idea. 
| And when calamity strikes yet again, he 
| reaches for the third: Get three envelope
`----

http://www.mondaynote.com/2010/05/30/ballmer-just-opened-the-second-envelope/

Cloud 2.0

,----[ Quote ]
| Last July, I wrote about Googleâs goal: 
| Sink Microsoft by deploying Cloud-based 
| Google Apps and, as a result, destroy the 
| Microsoft Office money machine. Today, 
| weâll take another look at Googleâs 
| strategy and at Microsoftâs response with 
| its just released Office 2010 which 
| combines desktop and on-line apps.
`----

http://www.mondaynote.com/2010/05/16/cloud-20/

âMicrosoftâs irrelevance is taken for grantedâ

http://dissociatedpress.net/2010/05/23/microsoft%e2%80%99s-irrelevance-is-taken-for-granted/

"I once preached peaceful coexistence with Windows. You may 
laugh at my expense -- I deserve it."

	-Jean-Louis GassÃe


Related:

PC/OS - the BeOS of the Linux world

,----[ Quote ]
| PC/OS is a recent new entry into the Linux distribution world. Based on
| Ubuntu, it uses Xfce as its default desktop and offers a variety of
| user-friendly enhancements, such as out-of-the-box support for popular
| multimedia codecs. It also includes a collection of software development
| tools. Although PC/OS has yet to be added to the DistroWatch.com's
| distribution database, we offer this reader-contributed review for the
| benefit of those visitors who enjoy evaluating emerging distributions.
|
| [...]
|
| PC/OS has become my distribution of choice. Not only for its nostalgic
| journey to the BeOS era, but because, as it advertises, everything worked out
| of box. I have installed it on four systems, two laptops and two desktop
| systems, and it works great. If you are a new Linux user, I highly recommend
| it. If you are a seasoned Linux user, give it a try. If you are a refugee
| from BeOS, it's definitely worth a look. PC/OS has a bright future. If it
| makes it past a year we may see it as a DistroWatch #1 pick. The developer is
| a nice guy, very technical and very eager to help if you have problems, and
| he understands the desktop user's needs. My experiences with PC/OS have been
| very positive and, as always, I encourage you to participate not only in this
| distribution but in Linux and open source in general. Overall, PC/OS is the
| best $1.00 I have ever spent.
`----

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080616#feature


BeOS-like distro focused on content creation

,----[ Quote ]
| A new Ubuntu-based Linux distribution has arrived, aimed at both Linux
| newbies and content creators. Boasting "out of the box" multimedia codecs,
| the freely downloadable PC/OS incorporates the lightweight XFCE desktop, and
| is said to offer a similar layout to the groundbreaking, but ultimately
| doomed BeOS.
`----

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3507625141.html


BeOS reborn: 30 days with Haiku

,----[ Quote ]
| I can't criticise Haiku. It's in a rapid state of development and no one is
| claiming it's anywhere near a productivity level. But it's very close, and
| you can't help feeling that a little user-oriented documentation and
| packaging could go a long way. A recent port of AbiWord and Firefox is all
| you'd need for most small office environments, and you'd be able to install
| Haiku on virtually any spare machine in the office. It would also feel
| quicker than most other operating systems, Linux included, and the
| limitations in the desktop environment wouldn't be important.
|
| KDE to Xfce
|
| If you do decide to live in the world of Haiku, it's the desktop environment
| that's going to have the biggest impact on your routine. It's akin to
| switching from KDE to Xfce, for example. The file manager is an important
| part of any desktop environment, and I found BeOS very reminiscent of my
| Amiga days. Like Workbench and Gnome's spatial mode, each folder click opens
| a new window, as do all the application and preferences windows. Window
| borders are small, and desktop space is used very efficiently.
`----

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/30-days-with-haiku-465275


Haiku OS Hopes For New 3D Stack

,----[ Quote ]
| Haiku OS, the nine year old project to develop
| an open-source BeOS-compatible operating
| system, is hoping it will receive a new OpenGL
| stack this year. The Haiku project, like
| X.Org, will be participating in this year's
| Google Summer of Code project where the search
| engine giant pays many student developers to
| work on code for various open-source projects.
| There's a long list of ideas for where Haiku
| OS could use some help, and one of them
| includes a hardware 3D acceleration stack.
`----

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODA1NQ


Haiku alpha: Wow. Just wow.

,----[ Quote ]
| For alpha release software, this is a very promising show. I
| like almost everything about this â the size of the
| installation, the desktop look, the clean way the system
| applications and desktop widgets handle themselves. If I can
| track down why the network was inaccessible I definitely plan
| on reinstalling it and giving it another whirl.
`----

http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/haiku-alpha-wow-just-wow/


Hands-on: Haiku, the future of BeOS, is pure poetry

,----[ Quote ]
| In the spirit of BeOS, Haiku's boot performance is very
| good. In my tests, I got from the startup splash screen
| to a fully usable desktop in roughly four seconds. This
| is one of Haiku's strengths relative to modern
| operating systems and it is the envy of prominent Linux
| distributions that are ambitiously aiming for similarly
| fast startup.
`----

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/09/hands-on-with-haiku-back-to-the-future-of-beos.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss


Haiku OS Beta 1: Simple Is Beautiful

,----[ Quote ]
| Two things about Haiku stand in stark contrast to Linux. The first is
| the licensing -- it's far more liberally licensed than Linux, and so
| lends itself to being shaped and implemented in far broader ways. The
| other is how Haiku is developed -- as a total desktop stack, rather
| than a kernel plus userland tools plus windowing system plus window
| manager, etc., etc. It's already made a great deal of difference in
| terms of the way the whole thing feels and works. It embodies
| elegance, even if some of the individual windowing/UI metaphors are a
| bit aged and could use some slicking-up.
`----

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/09/haiku_os_beta_1.html;jsessionid=DUCFFAA0UDD3BQE1GHPSKHWATMY32JVN


Haiku Project Announces Availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1

,----[ Quote ]
| This will help the Haiku development team identify and address bugs, and thus
| improve the quality of the system as development keeps advancing towards the
| subsequent development milestones. Bugs found in Alpha 1 should be reported to
| the Haiku bug tracking system at http://dev.haiku-os.org.
`----

http://www.haiku-os.org/news/2009-09-13_haiku_project_announces_availability_haiku_r1alpha_1
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