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Story: Ballmer: Longhorn is 'disruptive - but worth it'
Posted by: Andrew Hughes (Monday 9 August 2004, 12:28 PM)
Longhorn will give up the only reason people could have for staying with Windows - application compatability. It effectively puts itself in the same position as GNU/Linux systems in that regard -- in fact, possibly worse as we already have WINE.
The first apps to be ported will no doubt be MS ones. The old ones won't work, so if you want to stay with MS Office, you'll have to upgrade for that reason (along with the Longhorn upgrade). And, even by then, I bet they won't have added any decent features to it (like they haven't since the days of Win 3.1). Word still sucks on graphic inclusion even now, just as it did with version 6.0. And there still isn't a PDF export, etc. But, hey, at least Clippy will work under Longhorn -- you'll just need a supercomputer to run it...
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Story: Ballmer: Longhorn is 'disruptive - but worth it'
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Isn't the fact that migration to Linux is disrupti... Andy -
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Ever heard of Crossover Office? Or... Andy -
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