BIGMIKE
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Westminster, CA
3 edits | MS Linux: Shipping in November 2003 $249.99
wat you think of the price $249.99
Microsoft Linux provides all the power of the Linux Operating System with the ease of use you've come to expect from Microsoft Products.
»www.mslinux.org/
MS Linux: Shipping in November 1999
»fux0r.phathookups.com/textfiles/···nux.html
MS-Linux? It Could Happen »www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1400161,00.asp
»www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=l···e+Search |
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jdong
Eat A Beaver, Save A Tree.
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Rochester, MI
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| Lol, ridiculous....
Nice rip of the MS website, though... but isn't Microsoft a copyrighted term?
lol
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The US Government is happy and shuts up the DOJ while Microsoft institutes a monopoly within Cuba for everything from computer software to toilet paper.
look at these links to MS, too: microsoft.com/?PHPSESSID=968428326731256dd181b04ef27cc0c3
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jayco437
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Lincoln, NE | reply to BIGMIKE
My favorite, the link to the MS site with a PHP Session ID appended (mouse over the All Products link). |
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ftzsee
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I'm waiting for the "is this for real?!" replies to start rolling in.
This has been around for a while, and it cracks me up every time I read it. Especially the "Microsoft Monkey Colony on Mars" bit |
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stateq2
J Dilla
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Jackson, MS | reply to BIGMIKE
is this for real?! |
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alien9999999
Your Head Looks Nice
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the reference to Greg from Columbia Internet is nice 
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SuperJudge
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That'll be popular in warez channels.  |
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SuperJudge
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quote:
MS Linux to have Start Button
Microsoft is working to incorporate the well known "Start" button from the Windows Platform into X Windows' Gnome interface. "We just can't figure out how the hell to get that darn foot out of there! The damn thing is like stuck." The team will have this feature ready by product launch.
heheheh.
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elboricua
El Subestimado
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My favorite is
said by MS Linux:
"We just can't figure out how the hell to get that darn foot out of there! The damn thing is like stuck."
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BIGMIKE
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Westminster, CA
1 edit | reply to BIGMIKE
»www.mslinux.org/support.html
Already the letters are beginning to trickle in. Feel free to submit your own feelings on the subject.
"this this a fake MS page"
»www.mslinux.org/ |
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yazdzik
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Honesdale, PA
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Laugh if you will, but configuring wireless encryption took a call to M$ and belkin in windows, ten minutes and man pages on linux.
Ouch!
For $249, I hope they have the same unusable updating feature, so I can still spend time downloading things that do not work, since the shock of things working first time in linux is bad for my weak heart, and I would appreciate the usual M$ patches that ruin the OS, just for familiarity's sake.
I would also like M$linux to include the ever popular windows messenger protocol ported to linux, as there is nothing better than waiting for the transfer of a brief due in ten minutes and getting 14397 chinese menus, although I suspect this is limited to NYC geographically.
Also, since this will popularise linux, there ought to be a trojan dev sdk pack, as the half hour I spent last night fixing my son's pc was certainly more enjoyable than eating dinner or making love....
Also, I hope they make certian than the ten or so language packs that I use in linux are sold for $169 as they are in windows, as I have far too much money, and do not wish to become comfortable by eating two or three meals per day.
On that topic, open office should sell for an additional $269 and crash more frequently, as well as fail to read wordperfect files and pdfs, as I have become lazy in not running four programmes to read one document.
Other than that, I think linux as is is a pretty good thing - it just takes some getting used to -
-M
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tao
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| Hey now, are you running smack on Novell, or what? The site above is fake, but Novell will be rolling out a desktop distro with SuSE($99) and Ximian($99) for a total of $XP in the coming year. Now if you want Star Office, that will cost you even more.
Then again, if we are to be spending $$ on Linux, then why not the Sun offering of Linux, the Java Desktop, and Star Office for $50 until June 1st, thereafter $100? This is probably unfunny to Sun, but zero postings in ATU about this product. It certainly looks snazzy enough to demo, but a demo is not available.  Maybe tomorrow... 
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yazdzik
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Actually, Tao may be right -
Suse with Sun Office and Ximian Desktop -
Anybody like the name "Monopoly Linux?"
Maybe we could have runoffs, like in the fifties - "Mopar eats Chevy" style chicken matches - Two laptops, one fedora, one "Novell and Friends" -
Each driver rpms until his system breaks, then jumps off a cliff.
-M
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BeesTea
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said by tao  :
Then again, if we are to be spending $$ on Linux, then why not the Sun offering of Linux, the Java Desktop, and Star Office for $50 until June 1st, thereafter $100?
This might be why.
"Also, let me really clear about our Linux strategy. We don't have one. We don't at all. We do not believe that Linux plays a role on the server. Period. If you want to buy it, we will sell it to you,..." - Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's executive vice president for software.
»www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1274614,00.asp
They will have a rough time selling Linux to people other than their existing customer's I suspect. So that means Tom may be our first reviewer =P
Cheers,
-BeesT
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Stiv2k
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join:2002-07-22
Orlando, FL | reply to BIGMIKE
said by the website:
Microsoft Linux
Oxymoron? :/
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PinHead
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quote:
Graphical User Interface command-Line Technology (GUILT)?.
BWAAAaaaaa!
LMAO
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tao
Chaos Impends
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I am not sure that Mr. Schwartz could have stated this any differently. Sun has a very viable product line without Linux.
Does Microsoft have a Linux strategy other than FUD? Novell has a strategy, but it took them three years to realize they had no other option.
Now that I think about this, Novell did have the first Java desktop. I think that Novell 5.1 defaulted to a Java GUI. Dang, was that a slow interface.
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SuperJudge
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