Why Windows Lost The Battle for the Desktop

[John Bailo]

The war of the OSes was won a long time ago.

Unix has always been, and will continue to be, the Server OS in the form
of Linux.

Microsoft struggled mightily to win that battle -- creating a poor man's
DBMS, a broken email server and various other /application/ servers to
try and crack the Internet and IS markets.

In the case where they didn't spend their own money to get companies to
install servers, they failed miserably, and the 1 Billion per quarter
Linux market is testament to that.

But, what M$ didn't want you to know, is that the only reason they
wanted to dominate the server, is to protect their desktop and office
applications market.

Seal up the server, and the desktop is safe; cede the server, and the
desktop will fall.

And so it is...falling into the hands of Linux.

[Jeff_Relf]

Hi John, Re: Sitting down with people at Tullys, You wrote: <<
Sit down with strangers ? No.
If you remember, unlike you, I go to work 5 days a week.
I deal with all kinds of people. I go to lunch with co-workers.
I go to meetings and work interactively with clients.
Weekends are /John/ time. >>

That makes sense, coffee houses are mostly social events for me these days,
although there was a time when all I wanted to do was read by myself.

[John Bailo]

Jeff_Relf wrote:

Hi John, Re: Sitting down with people at Tullys, You wrote: <<
Sit down with strangers ? No.
If you remember, unlike you, I go to work 5 days a week.
I deal with all kinds of people. I go to lunch with co-workers.
I go to meetings and work interactively with clients.
Weekends are /John/ time. >>

That makes sense, coffee houses are mostly social events for me these
days, although there was a time when all I wanted to do was read by
myself.

That's because now that you're old, ugly and stupid, all you want to do is
bother people.

--
Language is a virus from outer space.
--William S. Burroughs

[Jeff_Relf]

Hi John, You told me: <<
that you're old, ugly and stupid, all you want to do is bother people. >>

No, I'm not like that at all, in fact, I'm very reserved.
I like to let others talk
and I'm always sensive to how the other person is feeling,
if I feel they want to be left alone, I leave them alone.

[Jeff_Relf]

Hi John, You commented: <<
I am training myself in the ways Thinking In C Plus Plus by Bruce Eckert.
I am training myself in the g++ compiler.
X.CPP only leads people off The Path. >>

You're on the wrong path John,
apps that do useful work are what matter,
not whether you hide stuff, like some evil magician, in classes or not.

[Jeff_Relf]

Hi John, Re: The typical techno-phobe housewife badly in need
of the ease of use and economies of scale provided only by Micro-Soft,
not by open source,

You wrote: << Microsoft is the staid husband,
no longer vital, that goes off to work everyday.
Linux is the young penguin,
who sneaks in the the backdoor and Satisfies the customer. >>

I hate to pop your bubble John,
but she's not using open source, much less Linux.

Which brings up an interesting question...
Does your ex use Linux ?

[John Bailo]

Jeff_Relf wrote:

Hi John, You commented: <<
I am training myself in the ways Thinking In C Plus Plus by Bruce
Eckert. I am training myself in the g++ compiler.
X.CPP only leads people off The Path. >>

You're on the wrong path John,
apps that do useful work are what matter,
not whether you hide stuff, like some evil magician, in classes or not.

I'm reading Eckerts "Thinking In Patterns".

Pretty cool stuff; design patterns seem all the rage, these days...

--
Language is a virus from outer space.
--William S. Burroughs

[John Bailo]

Jeff_Relf wrote:

Does your ex use Linux ?

No, but I wouldn't expect her to.

However, the next store neighbors, whose child plays with our son, are both
Linux professionals. It's good to know their are friendly Penguins
nearby.

--
Language is a virus from outer space.
--William S. Burroughs

[Jeff_Relf]

Hi Dave ( using KNode ), Re: news:Je******** *************** @Cotse.NET ,
You told Andrew: << The link works here
...Whether it is worth reading or not is another matter ;-) >>

So I can say that the news: prefix works in Outlook, 40tude Dialog,
KNode and Google but not Thunderbird or Kadaitcha's hand-rolled reader.
Kadaitcha's " reader " is probaly just cutting and pasting from Hamster files
along with a bunch of Perl scripts.

Kadaitcha ( Andrew ) faked his headers, of course,
he's obviously not using KNode.

[John Bailo]

Jeff_Relf wrote:

Hi Dave ( using KNode ), Re: news:Je******** *************** @Cotse.NET
,
You told Andrew: << The link works here
...Whether it is worth reading or not is another matter ;-) >>

So I can say that the news: prefix works in Outlook, 40tude Dialog,
KNode and Google but not Thunderbird or Kadaitcha's hand-rolled reader.
Kadaitcha's " reader " is probaly just cutting and pasting from Hamster
files along with a bunch of Perl scripts.

Kadaitcha ( Andrew ) faked his headers, of course,
he's obviously not using KNode.

Jeff,

Do you know how to dereference a pointer.

It's simple:

* ptr

See, I bet you have not learned that yet.

--
Language is a virus from outer space.
--William S. Burroughs

[Kadaitcha Man]

Jeff_Relf wrote:

Hi Dave ( using KNode ), Re: news:Je******** *************** @Cotse.NET
,
You told Andrew: << The link works here
...Whether it is worth reading or not is another matter ;-) >>

So I can say that the news: prefix works in Outlook, 40tude Dialog,
KNode and Google but not Thunderbird or Kadaitcha's hand-rolled reader.
Kadaitcha's " reader " is probaly just cutting and pasting from Hamster
files along with a bunch of Perl scripts.

Kadaitcha ( Andrew ) faked his headers, of course,
he's obviously not using KNode.

I am using knode... via kdepim under Gnome. The only way I can prove it is
this... http://akhenaten.kadaitcha.cx/screenshot.jpg

Berserker IV is it's name and it's running nicely under wine, with full
support for MDAC 2.8, thank you very much.

You'll note the snapshot shows follow-ups set. BIV will strip that before
you get this post. Now, take a close look at the snapshot and you tell me
if Berserker IV looks like cut and paste perl scripts, tardfuck.

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