[Ham-Computers] Microsoft Vista in the news

[kd4e]

You have been misinformed by someone.

MS Vista is not fully backwards compatible as has
also chronically been the problem with Apple upgrades.

Apps written for Linux are generally easy to make
functional across versions and Linux developers are
usually able to make their apps work under the various
MS and Apple versions of windows -- mono-OS capable
Apple and MS developers.

As for Internet access Firefox and Thunderbird are
frequently used as free and more functional replacements
for the buggy IE, Seamonkey is a complete Internet
Suite that replaces IE as well, OpenOffice does it all
across all three OS's, and there are others.

One of the two major makers of animated films chose
Linux over MS or Apple.  Why?  Because neither could
keep up with their creative needs and MS was choking
them to death with licenses and restrictions on
changes -- Linux set them free to develop whenever
they needed a new feature.

The level of quality and creativity is clearly on the
Linux side of things vs MS -- the *only* thing that
stands in the way of Linux expansion is hardware
manufacturers who refuse to cooperate in the development
of drivers and MS deliberately creating non-compatible
apps.

I do not allow our only MS PC on the Internet - we have
it only because some children's learning game developers
failed to make them cross-OS functional.

I can open and look at Internet viruses under Linux that
would cripple a MS box.  Oh, and if you insist, you can
pay for a commercial Linux distro -- it doesn't *have*
to be free.

IMHO, YMMV ...

 > WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> The problem with Unix and Linux is that there are more mutually incompatible 
> versions than there are computers on the planet.

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