Windows / Linux (was Re: Filepro-list Digest, Vol 42, Issue 41)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:17:12 -0400):

> On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 02:15:13PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> > And some more FYI:
> >
> >     http://community.livejournal.com/techsupport/1445093.html
> >
> >     Arrogance of Vista
> >
> >     Upgrading to Windows Vista has been banned by the U.S. Department
> >     of Transportation (DOT), the National Institute of Standards and
> >     Technology (NIST), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA),
> >     technology giant Texas Instruments and other corporations and
> >     government agencies (V1, V10, V11). These organizations are
> >     evaluating their options, but overseas it's turning into a
> >     stampede to get out of Microsoft software (V15).
> >
> > (References at bottom of "article 1".  Unfortunately, they aren't
> > active links, just the names of articles.)
>
> Now, in fairness to Microsoft... no, wait.  Why would I want to be
> fair to Microsoft?  :-)
>
> (Those agencies and companies banned XP deployment when it first
> shipped as well; they were all at least a year late getting in.  If
> someone says "we evaluated it for deployment, and it failed"; *that*
> would be newsworthy.  TTBOMK, it hasn't happened yet.)

And, in all honesty, virtually every computer in our home is running
Windows XP.  I have a Linux box under my desk, and two of the three
kids computers are Windows 2000.  (The third came with XP.  The two
that are Win2K were built out of spare parts, and we used some spare
Win2K licenses we had left over.)  I had Vista installed on a spare
system for a while simply to see what it was like, and to make sure
that filePro ran on it, but it has since been removed for lack of
need.

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