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I've had it with your closed, proprietary OS and file formats!

I'm getting an iMac with iWork.

would I want to rent an office in Redmond? I live in Virginia, you insensitive clods!

From TFA:


The FUBAR project keeps being touted as a world-class development team, but it is not producing world-class, or even minimally-professional, results. This already shows up in the project delays and quality issues of the releases to date. What the team is producing will not only be very difficult to support and modify, it will in all likelihood be unusable, resulting in a complete failure of the FUBAR project.


Sounds like Vista to me...

Some would consider not running Office 2007 to be a feature.

...how many applications will state "Designed for Windows XP, Vista, and Wine 1.0" as a supported platform. That will be the metre stick for success IMHO.

Volanin writes "The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available. This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development and beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along that long road!

While compatibility is not perfect yet, thousands of applications have been reported to work very well. Check http://appdb.winehq.org/ to see the details for your favorite applications."
http://winehq.org/

Volanin writes "In every Ubuntu release there is a group that is not so fond of the art. But this time, this group is a lot bigger: There is a lot of people who disliked the wallpaper, be it because of it's low quality, because they found it boring, or even because it is too similar to Vista's. And that's the reason this petition exists, to become a central point where people can manifest their dissatisfaction in a way that will reach the leaders of Ubuntu."

Volanin writes "KDE4 developer Sebastian Kuegler states: 'It has just been decided that the Beta 3 will be out one week later than originally planned. This is mainly due to some changes in how plasma work that we'd like to see in the new Beta. Highlights of that will be a working panel implementation.'"

simoniker writes "Game education site Game Career Guide has a new feature talking to recruiters from notable game companies like EA, Insomniac Games, and THQ about the best university courses and qualifications for getting hired to be a game developer. In it, EA's Colleen McCreary notes that she feels "not all students are suited for the traditional academic experience and it's nice for those students to have options," though adds that EA encourages students "to pursue more traditional academic degrees that allow for an emphasis on game development." She also comments of the rise of some TV-advertised mass market 'game schools': "Our concern with for-profit institutions is that students may not learn the fundamental the tools for understanding and solving complex issues," she says. "We are most likely to hire someone who has a BFA or MFA from a traditional art college and a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science for our entry level artist and software engineer positions.""