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Ubuntu 9.04 For the Windows Power User 727

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday May 21, 2009 @12:30PM from the because-you-can dept.

crazipper writes "Know a Windows power user who is (honestly) good with technology, but hasn't yet warmed to Linux? Tom's Hardware just posted a guide to installing and using Ubuntu 9.04, written specifically for the MS crowd (in other words, it talks about file systems, mount points, app installation, etc). Hopefully, by the end, your 'friend' will realize just how easy Ubuntu can be to use and start down a long path of exploration with a new operating system."

Comment Re:Could be great. (Score 1) 208

by jmataya on Wednesday April 23, 2008 @01:15PM (#23173580) Attached to: First Looks at Microsoft's New "Live Mesh" Platform

Nah, it's the beautiful thing about the EU's anti-trust measures: Microsoft will probably be forced to open up the protocol at some point. Look at Silverlight, last I heard MS is even helping with the Moonlight project. Sure, it could still be a trap, but maybe they (or at least some divisions within the company) are evolving.

Or I'm completely wrong. Who knows.

MS Four Points of Interoperability and Adobe 274

Posted by Zonk on Sunday June 04, 2006 @06:10PM from the learning-experience dept.

Andy Updegrove writes "Recently, spokespersons for Microsoft's standards group have been promoting 'design, collaboration and licensing' as alternatives, rather than supplements to, open standards. There's an important difference between an open standard and any of these ad hoc arrangements among companies, however, and that is the fact that with a standard, everybody knows that they can get what everybody else can get, and on substantially the same terms. With a de facto standard, that's not the case - as Microsoft itself found out last week when Adobe refused to offer the same deal on saving files in PDF form that Apple and OpenOffice enjoy."

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