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Why Windows Lost The Battle for the Desktop


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.

Jul 21 '05
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Jeff_Relf wrote:

A screen-shot of your code in your editor ( IDE ) would be nice.
Here's mine: http://www.Cotse.NET/users/jeffrelf/X_CPP.PNG


http://home.earthlink.net/~jabailo/i...tgladeide1.jpg

Here you go:

Glade visual designer.

Integrated with monodevelop

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Jul 21 '05 #341
On 25 Dec 2004 11:26:06 GMT, Jeff_Relf <Me@Privacy.NET > wrote:

Hi Dave, You told me: << I have been a professional coder since 1984.
Not down and dirty, though.
The environments I have worked in ( Real time, embedded )
have always required high quality code. >>

Oh really ? It's all that spotless is it ?

Then you wouldn't mind showing us some of it then ?

A screen-shot of your code in your editor ( IDE ) would be nice.
Here's mine: http://www.Cotse.NET/users/jeffrelf/X_CPP.PNG


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Jul 21 '05 #342
On Saturday 25 December 2004 11:26 Jeff_Relf wrote:

Hi Dave, You told me: << I have been a professional coder since 1984.
Not down and dirty, though.
The environments I have worked in ( Real time, embedded )
have always required high quality code. >>

Oh really ? It's all that spotless is it ?

Then you wouldn't mind showing us some of it then ?

A screen-shot of your code in your editor ( IDE ) would be nice.
Here's mine: http://www.Cotse.NET/users/jeffrelf/X_CPP.PNG


Most of the code I have produced is owned by the companies I worked for, so
I am not allowed to show any of that. I am, however, currently writing some
code under GPL. When it is ready, you, along with everyone else, can
scrutinise my code.
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Jul 21 '05 #343

Hi Dave, Re: If you'd show a screen-shot of your code in your editor
like I do here: http://www.Cotse.NET/users/jeffrelf/X_CPP.PNG ,

You wrote: <<
Most of the code I have produced is owned by the companies I worked for,
so I am not allowed to show any of that.
I am, however, currently writing some code under GPL.
When it is ready, you, along with everyone else, can scrutinise my code. >>

I show code, there's lots of it at my home page:
http://www.Cotse.NET/users/jeffrelf/

That's better than the Zero code that you show.

Jul 21 '05 #344
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 02:18:47 +0000, Jeff_Relf wrote:

(snip)

That's better than the Zero code that you show.


.... better for what?

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Jul 21 '05 #345
Jeff_Relf wrote:

Hi Dave, Re: If you'd show a screen-shot of your code in your editor
like I do here: http://www.Cotse.NET/users/jeffrelf/X_CPP.PNG ,

You wrote: <<
Most of the code I have produced is owned by the companies I worked for,
so I am not allowed to show any of that.
I am, however, currently writing some code under GPL.
When it is ready, you, along with everyone else, can scrutinise my code.
>>


I show code, there's lots of it at my home page:
http://www.Cotse.NET/users/jeffrelf/

That's better than the Zero code that you show.


Putting your household garbage on display,

when your neighbors show none,

is not *better*.

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Jul 21 '05 #346

Hi Steve_Zissou ( John ), You wrote: <<
If I could show working apps, I would,
but I can't, so I'll just ridicule those who do. >>

Well... at least you're honest.

Jul 21 '05 #347
Jeff_Relf wrote:

Hi Steve_Zissou ( John ), You wrote: <<
If I could show working apps, I would,
but I can't, so I'll just ridicule those who do. >>
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/20...DatabaseWS.asp

Well... at least you're honest.



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Jul 21 '05 #348

Hi Steve_Zissou ( John ), You wrote: <<
If I could show working apps, I would,
but I can't, so I'll just pretend that this is a working app:
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/20...DatabaseWS.asp


Well... at least you have a healthy ego... and we all need that, don't we ?

Jul 21 '05 #349

Hi Le_Petit_Soldat ( John ), Re: My request to see a screen-shot of
what people here are using to edit C/C++,

You showed Glade editing Hello World dialog boxes and C#.
( http://home.earthlink.net/~jabailo/i...tgladeide1.jpg )

I never use dialog editors or C#,
and the fact that you aren't editing real-live useful code is telling too.

Jul 21 '05 #350

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