Quote of the week is from the French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu story on SlashDot.
“Moving from Microsoft XP to Vista would not have brought us many advantages and Microsoft said it would require training of users. Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy. The two biggest differences are the icons and the games. Games are not our priority.”
Did you decline the Microsoft Windows EULA on your PC? If so, you may be entitled to a refund from the “manufacturer”.
(Liferea is proving to be a major distraction and productivity brake today!) There’s a fascinating comparison of XP SP3 and Hardy Heron on Mohammed Saleh’s blog (nice, polished presentation of the results too). He ran his tests on an AMD Athlon64 X2 5600+ based system. The results and findings, while interesting, are perhaps not entirely surprising. Executive summary: XP for graphics and multimedia, Ubuntu for multi-tasking and disk intensive tasks.
“Then there’s Mike, who buys a laptop that has a reassuring “Windows Vista Capable” logo affixed. He thinks that he will be able to run Vista in all of its glory, as well as favorite Microsoft programs like Movie Maker. His report: “I personally got burned.” His new laptop — logo or no logo — lacks the necessary graphics chip and can run neither his favorite video-editing software nor anything but a hobbled version of Vista. “I now have a $2,100 e-mail machine,” he says.”
“Mike” is Mike Nash, the Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management at Microsoft. The above quote is from an article in today’s New York Times.
I meant to blog this when I saw it a couple of weeks before Christmas.
I’d love to know how many copies of Windows Vista Ultimate Edition John Lewis on Oxford Street shifted over the festive period at £450.00 a pop. Yep, really, £450.00 on the shop floor. I seen ‘em do it man.
Let’s see, for that you could get two [sic] Asus EEE laptops from dabs.com at £199.99 each, O’Reilly’s ‘Running Linux’ and ‘Linux in a Nutshell’ from Amazon to help you get started and still have change for a decent pint.
Heh. £450.00 for an operating system! That’s before you buy the computer and any software required to actually make it do anything useful. Simply f***ing incredible.
It’s almost as if they sense that this can’t go on forever, and they’re going for broke before the kid shouts to the crowd “But… but… the emperor’s not wearing any clothes!”