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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.

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“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.”

Windows, windows everywhere and not a breath of fresh air to breath. I am tired, and I mean tired of Windows. I rally just don’t like it. I use a Mac at home, I am forced to use a WindowsXP DELL Laptop @ Work and it’s bad enough that I have to use a crappy DELL laptop but to make it even worse is I have to use XP. I have been playing with the idea and tossing it around to move from XP to Ubuntu.

It’s not going to be easy but I am going to give it a go. Let me point out what I am up aginst and how I am going to tackle those challenges.

1. Microsoft Office
2. Microsoft IE
3. Microsoft Sharepoint
4. IBM Client Access or iSeries Access with Navigator (also 5250)
5. Microsoft Outlook connected to Exchange
6. Dameware
7. CISCO VPN
8. Blackberry Connector and PIN Software
9. Adobe Acrobat
10. PUTTY
11. SecureCRT
12. CITRIX
13. Wireless LAN

I may add to this later but this is all I have for now. We also run JDE but that is via CITRIX so I may have to wait to tackle that one.

Codeweavers Crossover Office

I wanted to put this link out there so that we could start to talk about it. If you are in the know then you know what WINE is and this is just WINE with a great interface.

WINE: Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix.

Crossover Office: Our flagship Linux desktop productivity tool. Allows you to run many popular office productivity software applications and games, such as Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Project and Visio, graphics applications like Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX, and Adobe Photoshop, games such as World of Warcraft and Half-Life 2, and many more. Not only that, but CrossOver Linux also allows you to use many Windows Web browser plugins, such as QuickTime and Shockwave, directly on your Linux browser. No Windows Operating System license required; CrossOver is a complete replacement for your Windows OS as far as your applications are concerned.

There may come a point when these products come into play. So keep in mind we may have to pony up a little cash to get Linux ready fro prime time.

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I was looking at my normal site I read from time to time and I noticed this post. I think it’s a pretty fair look at Windows XP from a person who has not used it since Windows95 and is a pretty heavy MacOSX and UNIX user.

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