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| Authored by: Ian Al on Thursday, February 07 2013 @ 02:44 AM EST |
I wonder how much of the Ribbon interface code is embedded in the Windows OS,
Internet Explorer style. Would MS need a whole body of window management code
running on Linux to make the port possible?
I cannot see something like GTK lending itself to Ribbon.
I can see the beta release date rolling back into the distant future. About the
same time that the streamlined, new-technology Windows kernel reaches beta. I
seem to remember that the kernel work started way before the launch of XP.
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Regards
Ian Al
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 07 2013 @ 09:08 AM EST |
We all know what happens when one gets involved with M$.
Some people still refuse to learn.
No thank you!
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 07 2013 @ 09:45 AM EST |
It'll be it's usual buggy self.... even though there's been quite successful
"porting" of a number of MS apps to Linux via the use of Wine with many reports
of the products running more stably then on Windows itself.
When
customers call in with issues, they'll be told that the fault lies with Linux
and if they want to increase the stability, they should purchase a version of
Windows OS.
I know... given MS' historical pattern of behaviors, it's not
so much of a prediction as it is a deductive, highly possible, future.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 07 2013 @ 10:23 AM EST |
My guess is that MS is selling less (as in fewer and fewer) licenses to MSOffice
than to Windows.
So maybe they hope to make up some of the deficit by selling sand in the sah...
eh, MSOffice to Linux.
Silly notion, really.
Most Windows-based companies go with Open-/LibeOffice because they save a bunch
on not buying MSOffice license (and get to own their own data!).
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 07 2013 @ 12:47 PM EST |
Licensed under an incompatible legalistic mound of rubbish, requires an
additional license to obscure broken file formats, only runs with root
privilege, and requires a two year subscription.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 07 2013 @ 01:51 PM EST |
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The vast majority of Microsoft's profits come from Office. Microsoft makes
more per unit sold from Office than ANY other product.
I've been
writing about this for three years now in my Microsoft Death
Watch
series.
Office is the core of the company, not Windows.
Since Windows has
dropped to less than 25% of OS market share (if you
include cell phones,
tablets, consoles, etc.), Microsoft has little choice if
they want to retain
profitability but to port Office to other operating systems.
The big
question is whether or not the tactic will work. Sun Microsystems
started the
move towards commoditization of Office suite software with
their purchase of
Star, and subsequent release of Open Office as a free
download. Sun had solid
reasons for doing this, the costs at the time for
Office licenses for their
staff could be amortized in the Star purchase in a
relatively short time (about
three years I think - I don't have solid numbers).
By opening the code Sun also
was able to leverage community assistance
in further developing the suite (I
know - this is obvious - to people here - but
to Joe Average it
isn't).
Then Apple back stabbed Microsoft with iWork. The original
pricing was
aggressive. The 'download only' pricing in Apple's Mac App Store is
even
more aggressive, as is the IOS pricing. There's an article I wrote on
SemiAccurate detailing the long series of what had to be deliberate attacks
on
Microsoft by Apple. No matter how I put the numbers together, I could
not see
how they were anything other than an orchestrated campaign to
weaken the 800
pound gorilla.
Microsoft the released the Surface RT with a free
version of Office.
Effectively Office Suites now have no value.
But
Office Suites are where Microsoft makes its profits. How will they
manage?
I have no idea. Somehow they have to add significant value,
so that it is
worth paying $250.00 for an Office Suite to use on your
tablet. Can they do
it?
Guess we'll have to wait and see. Don't
forget, the people Microsoft will
target with Office won't be Groklaw regulars.
They know that they've
already lost us, and that it isn't worth the time and
effort to try and get us
back. Instead they'll target creative professionals,
businesses, and other
non-technical users. I talk to some of these people as a
writer, and they just
don't understand the dangers of monoculture, and probably
never will.
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 07 2013 @ 02:22 PM EST |
Could be a version of Office that's knobbled to run only on Linux VM,
and makes its own calls direct to the host...
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| Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Thursday, February 07 2013 @ 03:48 PM EST |
How much you wanna bet that they will use this "discovery" (i.e.
reading Linux docs) as an excuse to have one of their minions sue over
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