Microsoft Porting to Linux

Linux is great. and I would defitnly use it if not all of the games were for Winblows.

*program bundles that is.

Althought Linux users would have to have hella self-restraint, coz MSOffice is one of the best programs out there.

Hah. The day that Linux users run Microsoft software will never exist.

recently I've tried re-installing linux again but now I have a Abit BE6 motherboard which has that like proprietary Highpoint Tech Ultra DMA/66 controller on it, which my brother has some version of linux called 'Gentus' or something that is suppose to have support for it, but I'm not to big on using some dist. of linux that almost no one has heard of, and I heard that there are like super beta drivers in the new Redhat v7.0 or something, but I'm just not feeling l33t enough to mess with all that garbage... also I have a USB Razer Boomslang which for some reason would'nt work to well in linux, like w/o the drivers the mofo hauls ass around the screen.

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Linux does need a product like Installshield and I think that a whole lot more people will move over to it. It would be nice to put a CD in and have a quick, easy install in Linux like the one that Windows offers. That is my only complaint.

You'd be surprised at what else Microsoft is doing with Linux. Uhhh, oops...

HPUX is ass.. from a desktop point of view.. however, the OS does support hot swappable CPUs. That's a pretyy spiffy feature.

I'm sure people would be interested to see Internet Explorer ported to Linux.

How fucking hard can it be to ADD A LITTLE EDITING FUNCTION TO THE GOD DAMN COMMENTS YOU MUTHA FUCKAS?!

so people think I really can spell ;)

I don't find linux all that complicated, every thing you'd ever want to know you prolly can find it in a document somewhere, everything in linux is so well documented. The only kwams (sp? heh) I have with linux the amount of games ported over to it which is not enuogh at the momment, granted I mostly only play Q3A, which is ported, I still find no real reason to run linux except to be a l33t hax0r. Windows 2000 is MS's best OS to date, it's stable as hell, and run's just about everything I need except for some older games which I really don't care much for anyway. Another thing is driver support for linux which is a nother place they lack in, funny enough I have a Geforce which is supported rather well, but there aer many things that aren't. </rant>

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if at first it doesn't work, call it a beta.

hmmm
I wonder if microsoft could release their own distro of linux
They could call it something 'snazzy' line winux 2000 and really jazz it up.
Thats probably wont happen though.
i am glad that linux is getting attention, it needs a lot of work to become as friendly as windows.
I wish someone would give beos some attention mind you.
That has the potential to be a great OS.

Yesterday I told my brother about how all those huge companies were backing up GNOME, and he said why don't they just supoprt WINE? I just kinda laughed, I just figured he had had one to many beers in 'em.

I make simple spreadsheets at work in Excel 2000, email them home and work on them in Star Office and then send them back to work. It works fine except for the messages from both programs about the file formats you have to ignore. But I also take spreadsheets and convert them to html tables with Star Office. They display fine in IE5 but if you open them up with Front Page it'll look horribly messed up.

my sig is in beta form ;)

The main reason I deleted my Linux partition is that I couldn't get it to boot with the GeForce. But the other reason was having to use Netscape 4.7 (blech). I'm gonna get system commander and dual boot Win2k with 98 and chill for another year hoping Linux will get it together enough for non-geeks like me to use.

First, MS would have to make their own dist. of linux. Not sure if their inexperience in linux or their experience in OS building would help or hinder.

Second, they would have to build it ground up and port not just office but all their apps to it. Wouldn't this conflict with their sales of NT, one of their biggest cashcows?!

well way to go bill...

you FUCKFACE

I TOLD YOU I'D SHOOT, BUT YOU DIDN'T BELIEVE ME! WHY DIDN'T YOU BELIEVE ME?!

Geez, next thing you know they'll replace Win9X with Linux...

If anyone can make the Linux OS crash, it's Microsoft.

--Valiance--

I smell FUD. "Well, we are porting office to linux, so hey, you dont have to support GNOME Foundation, StarOffice, etc." Everyone sits and waits for MS to put something out, then and teh competition runs out of steam and goes away, and MS dosnt have to do hardly anything. Thats the strategy, and it will be interesting to see how this will turn out against Open Source projects.

Most linux users I know use it to get away from MS. It would be interesting to see how well a linux office suite form MS would be accepted by the linux community, and when it sells poorly, how MS will say "Hey if we cant get software to sell in linux, then no on e can"

Im speculating a lot here, but at this point, given MS track record, I feel Im not to far off base.

I personally dont think I will support any microsoft product on my personal machines, but if they do come out with something half decent, it will certainly give some ammmo to the fight to get linux onto the MS machines at work. A gateway from linux to windows? I see it working the other way around.

at any rate, Im glad to see linux becomeing mainsteam enough to get attention like this

Guess I'll try and clarify a few things...
First off, Microsoft's got it wrong if they think releasing Office for linux will get people to switch from linux to Windows, cause it will have the exact opposite effect. More people (ESPECIALLY Businesses) will say "You mean I don't have to buy a $150-$200 version of Windows to do office work? I can just buy their Office suite and download Linux and be set?" and they'll drop Windows like a bad habit.
Secondly, I'm not sure of many Linux users that want MS Apps in linux. It's because MS has shit to do with linux that makes it soo attractive.. and we've already got StarOffice (works pretty well, it's what I use), KOffice (for you KDE peons), and those GNOME tard's are working on their own office suite I believe.
Third, GNOME sucks cock and balls. Only reason a lot of people install it is because some useful programs require GNOME (or work better with it's libs and stuff installed).

--Loco3KGT

"Besides, I think Slackware just sounds better than Microsoft, don't you?" -- Patrick Volkerding (creator of Slackware)

double post oops.

Everyone was worried that MS was trying to take over the world as one big group... now that they've been split up, they can take over the world as three groups... divide and conquer...

MS owns joo!!!!

Look around you and tell me if it's not so and if you do than you're in denial.


Muhahahahaha!


- Uncle Tera Has A Tattoo On His Butt That Says: "Microsoft Forever!"

Nice. It will then give some of those "I only use MS products" trolls a little less to complain about. It will also be interesting to see what the Linux zealots have to say about this.

This isn't gonna work, Microsoft's shit doesn't belong on Linux.

We are Microsoft, you will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

This is funny and Microsoft sucks because they .. wait, they're doing what you fools want.

wow this would make Linux worth using if microsoft ported to it.

Linux == poop

Can lameness be ported to geekness?

There is hope for us all!

personally i love microsoft. intellimouse optical mouse, natural elite kb, windows2000, word and money 2000, other such goodies.

4th post too???

3rd post maybe