"the very significant number of users" and "many (most) of us" - you have no evidence for these statements. It is a fact that most users are saying...
Another grammar faux pas is the improper use of "you". When sitting down down in a restaurant, for example, I get cringe when the waitress...
And NOW, folks, for Canonical's next trick...
Kubuntu is late.
Here's a pencil. Draw your own conclusions.
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@kevinmchapman. The discussion here reflects the very significant number of users who really do like the traditional menu system and who wish to...
Er, no... It is an efficient means of finding the application/file/setting you need in one place. The icons are a simply a fallback for when you...
Isn't the provision of a text based search an admission by the developers that the mass of icons approach does not work? I don't need to use a...
"Unity and GNOME 3 both abandon the old text-based cascading menus in favour of a graphical icon-driven system."
Point truly missed. Both use a...
whs001 - Thank you, I'm glad you liked the article.
I absolutely agree with you on your first point. I should perhaps have made it clearer that...
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@GrueMaster. I prefer horses for courses rather than one size fits all. I, and I suspect most other computer users, do not really wish to have...
The product that scares me every time I have to use it is the Office 2007 version of Excel.
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Nice review and very informative. One thing I'd like to add (in reply to whs001's 1st question), the main reason to have the same interface from...
I'be been using Mint 12 since the RC came out, and I am far more happy with the Cinnamon, the Mate, and, yes (with extensions), theGnome 3...
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In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
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For Gnome 2 die-hards, it is possible to add icons to the bottom panel (or top top panel, if you prefer) which provide the exact Gnome 2...
Your comments would seem pretty naive and immature. Your 'solution' appears to be, "gee, let's all just give in to the hackers and give them...
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I always wondered when this would happen. This would surely help in a lot of primary schools with limited desk space for multiple PC's. I look forward to seeing how this progresses, and the price!
This is nothing new, schools in Africa have been using Linux to do the same thing for years.
Well done MS for again not innovating themselves.
I saw a similar set-up demonstrated at the Linux World Expo 2006 in Olympia. I believe up to 10 users can work from a single computer.
http://linux.sys-con.com/node/275686
There is also the SLIM project at Sourceforge from a very quick Google search. Perhaps there are others.
Think of the savings schools, colleges and Universities, offices, call centres, local governments etc. could make (if not trapped in a vendor lock-in).
@yossarianuk, This is how MS has been "innovating" for years.
"Microsoft hasn't said what it will charge for the product, but on the software side, Multipoint-based systems require a license for the server and then a client access license for each set-up that is connected to it." from cnet report.
This just kills it completely.
How long before microsoft gets a patent on the idea then?
They managed to get one on a supremely obvious extenson to a GUI on top of sudo - similar stuff already done in KDE too.
As I read it, Microsoft have obtained the patent on Sudo itself but they have also added, or propose to add a GUI.
Either way, surely Sudo is protected by the GNU licence and prior art. Bolting on a GUI must, for sure, be an infringement of the licence. That is unless they continue to licence under the GNU.
Why do Microsoft want Sudo anyway, that's an interesting question.
I get quite annoyed when told by the young whizz kids of today that nothing of the 70's computer science is relevant today. I often get overlooked for jobs as my knowledge is out of date (supposedly), yet here we go again.
As part of our PC evaluation process, we stipulated that multiple users should be able to use one PC, doing applications such as spreadsheets and word processing. For that reason we ruled out the IBM/Microsoft offering and opted for a better operating system and better designed microcomputer. We rolled out one per desk before the One Per Desk had been invented! Along comes Charlie Chaplin in an IBM ad. His presence convinced the US business market that IBM and Microsoft was the way to go, the applications followed the new phenomenon and the world of computing was put back at least 20 years. The good thing about it was that our ROI was so good that it meant we had gained by the time we had to replace the old kit and roll out the IBMPC clones loaded with Microsoft offerings.
So here we are over 20 years later and Microsoft have come up with the new idea of multiple users sharing one PC, but in their case naturally it is a server. Now why didn't I think of that.
I was a bit bemused reading this story: nine years ago I did an installation of something called "BeTwin" for a client. This software allows multiple users to concurrently use one PC by using multiple screens, keyboards and mice, and each user has their own unique session - sound familiar?
See http://www.thincomputinginc.com/product_pc_sharing_betwin.aspx
no server OS required - you only need one workstation licence - 2000, XP, Vista or Windows 7...