System i Addict

Link to Article

Spurred by an e-mail from someone deep in the marketing ranks, Microsoft last week traveled to San Francisco, rounding up Windows XP users who had negative impressions of Vista. The subjects were put on video, asked about their Vista impressions, and then shown a “new” operating system, code-named Mojave. More than 90 percent gave positive feedback on what they saw. Then they were told that “Mojave” was actually Windows Vista.

I was reading Bill Higgins blog post about converting from Windows to Ubuntu on his work desktop. While I am impressed with his little write up I would like to offer him a little something if he has not already found it.

WINE or Codeweavers Crossover Office :: Crossover for Linux

You have to love it that Microsoft is shooting itself in the foot.

Link to Article

“You gotta love it. Microsoft has decided that it will ho ahead and kill off easy access to XP on June 30th. On behalf of desktop Linux users everywhere, and our first cousins, the Mac fans, thanks. You’ve given us the best shot we’ll ever have of taking the desktop.”

In the end I may end up being the smartest dude in technology. I have been calling for this move for years and while I know if I yelled and said it long enough over time it would eventually happen. With new leaked screen shots of Windows 7 out and looking more confusing than ever, and an even better release that Linux hackers are starting to move to MacOSX. Is this the shift Apple has been looking for? Is the failure of Vista and the silent, growing success of MacOSX finally put us at the tipping point.

While I would break my heart to see Linux fall short, it’s time for something other than Windows. Windows is garbage and it’s failed and disappointed us for years and I think the consumer is know waking up and seeing it for what it’s worth.

I sure do hope this is going the direction I think it is and time will only tell.

If Mark Shearer would have told us that i V6R1 is buggy and crap but we are going to release it to you and it’s a work in progress, we as a community would have had his head on a stake!

For Microsoft to say to us that Vista is a work in progress is just ridiculous. It just shows you that they don’t have any respect for you the consumer or any pride in the product they deliver.

While I don’t think Vista is a work in progress and what they delivered is any better than Ubuntu Desktop, and can’t hold a candle to MacOSX. You see the problem is Microsoft is not a company that thinks you all out there are very smart. They assume you will buy a new PC and just love Vista. I am not sold on the idea, and was recently in a Best Buy where the sales “dude” tried to tell me how much he loved Vista and in a matter of minutes I had pointed out all of it’s problems as I saw it and he agreed with all of them, then I delivered the death blow, with all of these problems how can you call it a good product? He answered, “I ignore them.”

Ah, now we know what Microsoft users all have in common, instead of fixing the problems or improving them, they just ignore them. How very useful. If Ubuntu would have just ignore the issue or short coming with it’s desktop then where would we be? If Apple would have just kept putting out MacOS9 and never really made MacOSX where would we be? So when Microsoft creates a new OS and it’s plagued with problems the users simply love it because it’s new and flashy and the only thing most of them know how to install on the PC they just purchased and have learned to ignore all the problems. Interesting.

Don’t worry Mark we are not going to ignore anything in the new release of i or the new POWER hardware because as a community we expect more from IBM, but have always expected less from Microsoft.

It warms my heart to see IBM wanting to try out Apple hardware and software internally. The same thing happens when I think about Lotus 8 and the new “office software” it comes with as alternatives it makes me all happy inside. See the day is coming when Microsoft is going to start having to cut jobs, and rethink it’s business units. They will announce “restructuring plans” and how they are going to change the way we think. I know it’s not this year but it’s coming. The day SONY buys the XBOX division, and Microsoft starts selling off divisions like Great Plains and other company’s they don’t serve them well. All because big IT is not moving to Vista. IT people hate Vista and it’s not worth the RISK to make that change. Microsoft knows this so they are trying to force everyone hand and when they do that companies like IBM look for alternatives. Maybe they will bring back OS/2? Maybe the world will move to Apple, or is Linux about to have a real sunrise in this arena?

Thanks Steve for saying what we all have been thinking…..Vista is crap and you put it out before it was fully cooked. To bad the junkies that work at Best Buy are all drinking the Windows Kool-Aid and refuse to cal Vista crap.

You don’t have to talk me into not liking Mimcrosoft. From the IT road I have traveled they are not as smart as some people make them out to be. Microsoft makes a decent all around OS for the desktop and the same piece of crap OS for the Server. I know there are smart people out there everywhere who think Microsoft is better than say an IBM or an Apple, but these are the same people who want State Run Health Care and Love Obama, some day you will up and understand Microsoft, The VA Hospitals or State Run Hospitals and Obama were all bad for you. They are all really good looking turds!

For the moment the American people are starting to figure out at least one of them, that Microsoft ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. LINK 

So one down and the rest to go. To cap this all off. You don’t want Free Health Care because we can’t afford it, and it will end up being much like the VA is now. Slow and Angry! Lastly Obama is an empty suit, I told you this a year ago. He has nothing to stand on becasue he has done nothing. He wrote a novel about a guy with his same name that has people wonder about his mental position and he promises everything only as the end of his speech to tell you he will promise you nothing but he will try hard. Plus is he more communist than you all think. I am going to go ahead and call him that because you really need to look at his issues and realize he and Stalin all over again.

<David climbs down off his soap box now>

I love a good desktop fight. PCMAG.com has posted an interesting read about Ubunut vs. WindowsXP vs. Windows Vista vs. Mac. Read and take note.

I am a Mac & Ubuntu fan. I have a distain for Windows that is more than just the normal “Hate the biggest company”.

This review is using 7.10 of Ubuntu and 8.04 is right around the corner. I think it would do much better in some areas if they were to place the full 8.04 vs. the others. Will have to wait for that one.

Summery:

Price: Ubuntu
Installation: MacOSX
Interface: MacOSX
Bundled Software: MacOSX
Third Party Softwar: WindowsXP
Drivers & Hardware: WindowsXP
Networking: WindowsXP (WTF  - MacOSX Networking is seemless?)
Security: Ubuntu & MacOSX
Winner: MaxOSX

“In our First Looks review of Leopard, we gave it a great score (4.5), and despite some disagreement —you expected complete unanimity?—we again found it worthy (with a final score of 4). Mac OS 10.5.1 is the product to pick for our mythical average user who wants something secure, easy to install, and easy to master. That you can also run Windows and Ubuntu on today’s Intel-based Macs—enabling you to use all these OSs on the same PC—is just gravy.”

My opinion if anyone cares:

I know PCMAG.com is a Microsoft leaning MAG. I have read them for years and they always lean to Microsoft when they have the chance. The only reason you leave in WindowsXP is so that you don’t leave Windows out in the cold. Hell for that matter let’s include BeOS  and MacOS9 as well. It’s just as old? I would take issue with the decision to leave in what is now n 8 year old and tired, flawed, and patched OS. Why not just deal with new OSes?

Next is the networking, I don’t agree at all with then completely leaving out the justification for why MacOSX 10.5.1 losses out to WindowsXP in the networking area. My MacOSX 10.5.1 is a networking beast. I don’t have to think about it, it just works. WindowsXP networking didn’t get decent until that SP2 came out some 5 years into it’s life.  WiFi on Mac just works and so easy my wife can do it over the phone without much problem. WindowsXP would have driven and did drive her crazy. Shame on PCMAG for not being fair.

I do agree with the winner and would like to see this done again in 6 months with WindowsXP out of it, let Windows Vista stand on it own (LOL), and put Ubuntu 8.04.1 in the mix and we wont see Windows winning much at all.

MacOSX as I have said for years is my favorite OS by far. Ubunut is getting there.

I am just posting a link and I think that all I need to do. LINK

I found this blog somehow. You know how you wander around the web and all of a sudden you have found something you like. The we used to be like that every time I got on in the begining, but now I can search and find what I like, thanks Google.com .  I found myself reading this post and thinking I had written it, so I wanted to share someone elses view on Mac, Microsoft, and how is all does not make sense we are all working on Windows and at home on our Macs.

” After that month I was ruined forever on Windows. Now, I am completely and utterly disgusted at how Windows operates and “functions”. Worse than anything is the pile of crap that was let loose on the public under the name of “Vista”. Vista is slow, buggy as can be, and annoys me to death. On the otherhand, OSX (The Mac OS), is fast, EXTREMELY stable, and seems to be one step ahead on the things I am trying to accomplish.” 

Link to Matt’s Blog 

So with so few companies moving to Windows Vista for so many of the right reasons and if you really want to make an upgrade you could move to MacOSX, but I digress. Many people and CIOs are passing on Windows Vista and waiting now for Windows 7. Lets all hope that the screw that one up too.Link to Post 

So I have made some nice scratch removing Vista from PCs and installing XP for them, in a couple of cases I was able to talk them into Ubuntu and those people have been the happiest of the group.

Once again Microsoft is reporting record profits but sales of Vista are off. LINK HERE

“The sales rate of Microsoft’s Windows Vista is gradually slowing down as the operating system reaches the one-year anniversary of its release to businesses, according to the company’s latest financial results. The Redmond, Washington-based company shipped approximately 28 million copies of Vista in the latest quarter ended September, or 9.3 million copies per month.”

So while I stuggle with a few people I support making a little scratch on the side who run Vista, and now Don Reisinger from CNet says what some of you out there are thinking…..what is Microsoft going to do with Vista?

Not only that but, I got my first taste of the new Office for Windows at college and man it’s just a mess. Nothing is where you think it should be. To say it easy to use would be like saying root canals are fun a exciting. It’s just more poo on more poo. Eventually you have to pick up a shovel and get rid of it. While I am trying not to bash Microsoft I do think they have lost sight of what is impportant…read on and tell me what you think?

CNET - Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself

I am ripping this from Chris, but it’s to precious to leave in one place.

Link to Chris Whisonant and his post. Thanks Chris!

I am not sure what to make of this, but it can confuse a person like me.

Link to SLASHDOT 

Link to Goklaw

This is too funny not to show you. Microsoft has a site for downloads of various software products, not just their own. It’s called Windows Marketplace. Yesterday, for a brief shining moment, you and 10,000 or so other people could and did download Ubuntu Linux from a link on that page — thank you, Google Cache — which sent viewers to CNET for the download.

 While I can go ahead and tell you I use NeoOffice on my Mac and have no trouble with it. To think that Microsoft Office for Mac is not going to have problems makes you sound a little naive. I think it’s a wonderfull idea and they should move the Windows PCs to OpenOffice as well.

Full Story HereÂ

Software has been wiped from thousands of school computers because of a row over Government funding.

Microsoft Office programs have been ordered to be removed from about 25,000 Apple Macintosh computers in schools.

The Ministry of Education did not renew its deal for the programs, meaning that students using the Apple computers will not have access to common programs such as Excel and Word unless the school buys the software independently. Read the rest of this entry »

So with Vista sales not where they should be and for good reason, it sucks, and nothing to do since they have another 7 years before they have to deliver the next version of Windows.

Microsoft can’t beat Linux at thier own game so they corner Novell and now they are coming after the rest of the OpenSourced Community.

Microsoft is dying and we are watching them fall, and it sure is sweet. Problem is they have tons of money and can try to beat up the Open Sourced community all they want cause you can’t beat the price of FREE and Microsoft knows it.

Link to ZDNET Article

Microsoft claims that free and open-source software violates more than 230 of its patents, according to a magazine report published on Sunday.

In an interview with Fortune, Microsoft top lawyer Brad Smith alleged that the Linux kernel violates 42 Microsoft patents, while its user interface and other design elements infringe on a further 65. OpenOffice.org is accused of infringing 45, along with 83 more in other free and open-source programs, according to the Fortune article.

I know Biff hates Patents and now so do I. Microsoft can go to hell. They are theives and are up to no good!

Fourtune Article

InfoWeek Article

Torvalds writes: ‘It’s certainly a lot more likely that Microsoft violates patents than Linux does.’ He added: ‘Basic operating system theory was pretty much done by the end of the 1960s. IBM probably owned thousand of really “fundamental” patents… The fundamental stuff… has long, long since lost any patent protection.’”

I wrote about it years ago and talked about it on the radio as well. Microsoft does not have the cult like following that say Apple, Linux or IBM System i5 has and for good reason. They have never really cared about the users of thier products. Other smarter companies love thier users and they show it byt haloding things like Macworld or COMMON?

Here is just one more person writing what I have been saying for years…..

Even Ed Brill Picked this up from Lotus. While I think Ed could have been a little more critical of an actual issue like this I think he said plenty.

link to Post

Is Linux finally ready to take on Windows as a desktop OS? We tried out both Vista and Ubuntu on individual PCs to see which works better. Here’s who won.

This seems to be one of the most even reviews I have read and will reread it many times to make sure I fully understand it and can consume it.

The last comments seem like the place where the injustice is. At no point does the author seem like either one better. They are still very different OSes.

“Ubuntu’s best strength is handling the ordinary task-based day-to-day stuff. Vista has a level of completeness and polish that some people find it hard to do without. ”

Thanks Switzerland for you super grey outlook and neutral opinion on nothing.  Nice way to not make a point and say what you really feel. I think there were times in the article when you could feel the author start to lean to one side and then at the bottom they call it a tie….oh well. I think we can all read and see who really won. Might I add Vista is expensive and you really don’t own the copy you just purchased and Ubuntu is free and so is the support.

No it’s not new to anyone that I am a big fan of Linux. I am in love with Ubuntu right now and truly think that Ubuntu is what Linux should be. SUSe and Fedora(Redhat) have goofed big time and it’s starting to backfire on them, but that is not the point of this post. More over it’s to point out my true love for Microsoft’s stupidity.

Recently Microsoft has hired the likes of the Russian police to do their dirty work and go after a head master of a school for using pirated copies of Windows. Let me go over that again. Microsoft is going after school kids now and taking their computers OS for not paying the lousy $75 bucks for a 6 year old hunk of crap OS called Windows. Is everyone clear?

Why Microsoft is not going after the crack head who made the CDs and sold it to the school is beyond me but leave to to Microsoft and Bill to go a shoot themselves in the foot.

So here is the link

I sure hopes this backfires on Microsoft and also around the world. Everyone needs to realize that Microsoft has no interest in you or your purpose, you need pay the man and make sure you keep the invoice since they will come after you and bill your and fine you and might put you in jail.

Oh and if you don’t think Microsoft will show up at your house and ask you for proof, you are dead wrong. They will come a knocking and fine the living day lights out of you for one stinking copy. The FBI will show up and then all hell breaks loose, cause you know you have that one DVD you got off of Craig’s List that does not look right and that is against the law and then they find other things and the next thing you know you are up in Federal Court paying out all kinds of money for something you could have replaces years ago. Windows!

It’s truly sad. So do you have a choice? Sure you do. You can pick up a Mac, but if you can afford a new Mac and don’t want to pay or can’t you can always get Linux, might I recommend Ubuntu?

Go ahead and download Ubuntu and you will soon find out it’s just as good as Windows without all the high costs and crappy OS problems. Windows is still full of problems and for what you pay you would think that would make it tons better?

Link to the Post about a Windows User who jumps ship for a Mac. Go to hell Vista!