IBM's Answer To Windows 7 Is Ubuntu Linux 863
An anonymous reader writes "It looks like IBM isn't much of a friend of Microsoft's anymore. Today IBM announced an extension of its Microsoft-Free PC effort together with Canonical Ubuntu Linux. This is the same thing that was announced a few weeks back for Africa (a program that began a year ago), and now it's available in the US. The big push is that IBM claims it will cost up to $2,000 for a business to move to Windows 7. They argue that moving to Linux is cheaper."
MS Response (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft responded by stating they are happy IBM has found someone new, that's just great, and hey by the way MS is engaged to Dell who is hotter than IBM anyway so there.
Re:IBM's hardware vendor mind is taking over (Score:5, Funny)
Hey, if Microsoft wants to take on IBM with its own tactics and give away a PC with every copy of Windows, that's fine with me.
Nobody ever got fired... (Score:5, Funny)
...for downloading Ubuntu Linux.
Re:IBM's hardware vendor mind is taking over (Score:3, Funny)
Re:MS Response (Score:5, Funny)
Re:IBM's hardware vendor mind is taking over (Score:5, Funny)
Did you know that Germany is also called DoucheLand and their currency is the DoucheMark? Krauts are a bunch of douches. Now you know!
And knowing is half the battle.
Re:Can't Lock Linux Down (Score:4, Funny)
This is a bit obsessive, but it's their prerogative. Either its not that easy to prevent a user from accessing the mouse control screen in Gnome or KDE, or most administrators are "Windows Trained" and wouldn't know the steps to lock it down (most just run a 3rd party app that does it for them anyway).
Re:Irrelevant (Score:5, Funny)
> ...there's no low to mid range POS software that runs on *nix.
True. "Piece Of Shit" software is a Microsoft specialty.
Re:Nobody ever got fired... (Score:1, Funny)
...but I know a few who got a chair in the face.
Re:IBM's hardware vendor mind is taking over (Score:5, Funny)
The answer was Ubuntu Linux, but .. (Score:3, Funny)
the question was "Do you believe insider trading is rampant within IBM?"
Re:IBM's hardware vendor mind is taking over (Score:5, Funny)
Re:IBM's hardware vendor mind is taking over (Score:3, Funny)
Old disks hold 700MB right? Wait floppy disks? What's a floppy disk?
Re:IBM's hardware vendor mind is taking over (Score:2, Funny)
Re:IBM's hardware vendor mind is taking over (Score:5, Funny)
This is a valid, but unlikely Premium Microsoft eXperience (PMX) endgame scenario. 2014: Microsoft is suffering diminishing sales and shares, beaten on one side by an Apple grown to a media/technology giant five times their size and on the other side by hardware partners also grown much larger than them desperately trying to compete but weighed down by a pathetic Windows 8 demanding near zero pricing for OS software both on the server and the client. Unable to drive the hard bargains they historically had, Microsoft finally admits they want to own everything. They launch an own-branded mobile thin client solution with Mesh MiWi, three day battery life, serving the desktop experience with their full software suite through their own-branded cellular data plan at $100.00. Naturally this blows up in their face as a blizzard of court filings bury them in paperwork first from their partners and then for their customers. The product is their most popular ever - right up until they get 10% market penetration and their network goes down at the same time their storage service consumes everyone's data. Ultimately the whole thing implodes. As the Sheriff is escorting him out of the building, Steve Ballmer has a stroke leaving him as aware as ever, but unable to move or speak.
2016:Apple Studios announce the summer blockbuster of 2017 will be "The Road Behind", the epic story from the beginning to its conclusion. Ballmer will be played by Scott Thompson [slashdot.org] and lured back from retirement for the role many believe he was born to play, Mark Hamill will be Bill Gates. Release will be by the usual streaming hi-def to pocket theatres worldwide as pay-per-view over the Apple 5G network. 2017:Widely panned by critics as low comedy that doesn't quite rise to cult status, it's rereleased immediately to Pico-SD where it sees a modest but profitable run.
Re:MS Response (Score:5, Funny)
Someone should tell MS that their fiance hasn't been entirely faithful [dell.com].
Who cares she's just an empty box that does what she's told. IBM didn't want to shut up and let Bill drive.
Re:Oh no you didn't (Score:5, Funny)
...and even then they are as buggy as hell.
How would this be different to running them on Windows then?
Re:IBM's hardware vendor mind is taking over (Score:5, Funny)
Re:IBM's hardware vendor mind is taking over (Score:3, Funny)
And they'll gladly sell you an older version that's light weight if there's a market of legitimately cheap PCs.
(Typing this on a shiny new netbook with XP Home.)
Re:IBM's hardware vendor mind is taking over (Score:4, Funny)
M$ has refined the art of blowing butterflies, rainbows & unicorns up everybody's ass
Um, ouch?
Re:IBM's hardware vendor mind is taking over (Score:3, Funny)
Re:IBM's hardware vendor mind is taking over (Score:3, Funny)
"People will then ask "what is WINE" and we can smugly say ...
WINE Is Not an Emulator"
Q: So, what's this Wine thing?
A: WINE Is Not An Emulator
Q: Okay. What is it?
A: It's not an emulator!
Q: Right. So what is it then?
A: WINE stands for WINE Is Not An Emulator. That's what it is.
Q: Okay.... so I know what it isn't. What is it?
A: Well it isn't an emulator. Whatever stories you've heard about emulation, they're all lies. Because Wine isn't an emulator.
Q: It's not?
A: No it most certainly is not. No emulation is occurring in any way, form or fashion. Nil, zip, nada. Emulation: not happening.
Q: If it's not emulating... what is it doing?
A: Something else, that's what. Something QUITE different from emulating, thank you very much.
Q: Is it a simulator?
A: Nope, it's not a simulator either.
Q: A port then?
A: Well. not a port as such, no. It's not just a recompile.
Q:Not a drop-in replacement?
A: No, it's a little different from.... what it's not emulating... so no, not quite a drop-in replacement.
Q: An environment? An interface layer? A compatibility box?
A: Yes, something like that. Not an emulator, but a layer... yes, perhaps a layer...
Q: But it's a substitute, yes? An ersatz? A fake? A replica? A knockoff? A Clayton's beverage? A cheap facsimile of an expensive, unobtainable item?
A: It's not an emulator!
Q: Whats it not emulating?
A: Well it's certainly not emulating Windows, that's for sure.
Q: It's a Windows emulator, isn't it.
A: Oh just go run Snow Leopard.