to be left on an ice floe?
Note from James Dermit
Check this out. Microsoft sings a new tune on Linux
Microsoft is offering customers a tool that will delay the delivery of Windows XP Service Pack 2 to PCs until businesses have had a chance to test it.
Microsoft is now running Linux and Microsoft users are being provided with tools to delay running SP2. How long should one delay their deployment of SP2?
Who knows?
When strategy goes awry, the competition will fry. Something is up.
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Q: What are the application compatibility consequences for SP2.
A: More fixes to fix the fixes that broke what was previously broke, but you didn’t know it was broke until you updated the OS. Now everything is broke. A new patch is being written to patch the old patches which may not allow certain hardware to work or programs that run the hardware to run under the update. Nobody is sure what hardware won’t work. There will be updates for all the fixes of the fixes and patches for the patches and a new patch for the fix that broke the code. This should fix everything.
I think I have it figured out, but I am still researching it.
Friday 8-13-04
I guess the Google auction gets off and running today. I’ll be busy with other things. Here’s a little Friday the 13th MS history of note see techworld link). Google better stick with what they know, which is Linux. Good luck Google, you’ll need it with the IPO.
Friday the 13th Unlucky for Microsoft, Windows Users
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/32854.html
A picture is worth a thousand windows.
http://www.technewsworld.com/images/rw5116/hacker-18.jpg
I really think that only having this idea of Microsoft Linux is simply disgusting. I know that MS has its own UNIX Support Tools (doesn’t support most Command Tools), and ironically has also the Windows media player for UNIX.
But always you will see that Microsoft uses the (UNIX) word not (LINUX), it looks like its forbidden (Oooh god Please forgive me). Cos Microsoft from about the start of 2001 has began to promoting agents Linus by using how the it cost more and more than the average MS-Windows Server remember the “get the fact” Ad on every tech site & about every enterprise computer mag; and don’t both the MS-SQL & MS-Visual Studio Ad on every linux mag , yes every mag. But lets thing ironically and ignore all this “Microsoft vs. Linux” Force, and if Microsoft work hard -it won’t-. And after lets say a year and after the Company Buys some geek linux people. I belive that Suse will simply just Die as most of Linux poor Company (Suse is Not), And the only linux that will be running is RedHat!. the open source will be more like closed. The Microsoft Dream, And the Night mare of Lindos.
As Mr. Taylor says in the article:
“Before, Linux was this cloud we didn’t get, now it is Red Hat, Novell, IBM. We know how to compete with companies. I was high-fiving everyone I could find when Novell bought [German Linux distributor] SuSe. We already won once against Novell.”
Linux will have a hard time going “corporate”, because M$ knows how to beat other corporations. It is only while Linux was non-corporate, that M$’s weapons didn’t have a target to lock-onto.
Having a “hard time” doesn’t mean failure. Just that M$ will be (has been?) playing “Whack-a-Mole” with every Linux-based company which appears.
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Before Linux was this cloud we didn’t get, now it is Red Hat, Novell, IBM. So, what next?
Every gambler wants to know the result of the horserace before it starts. Politician Horatio ‘Botty’ Bottomley, who had a racehorse, came up with a scheme to make this dream come true shortly before World War One. Bottomley would sponsor a race, own all the horses and make sure they finished in the correct order. Bottomley would do some heavy betting. He chose Belgium for his coup, because the rules weren’t as strict as in Britain. Blankenberge had a seaside racecourse, which six English jockeys would finish the race in exact order at. Disaster struck though, when a thick fog of sea mist swept over the racecourse and that made the jockeys get out of touch with one another. The horses never crossed the finishing line in the exact order as was planned and Botty lost a fortune.
You can’t beat competition for keeping things running well, even in a fog. In Maidstone prison, a previous acquaintance came upon Bottomley, who was sewing mailbags. “Ah,” said the acquaintance, “sewing?” “No,” replied Bottomley, “reaping”. Do you get it now?