Online article: "Microsoft funds African PCs amid open source debate"

[Michael Shigorin]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:11:40PM +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> IMHO ( ;-) )

:-)))

> You really can't compare a windows desktop and a Linux desktop
> like that. They're two very different environments.

Yeah, hence "HO" and taste references.

> For instance I feel that for the first time user/complete
> technophobe Windows does it better

Mac does it so much better yet that it's no sense trying to weigh
that argument. (I've used Windows from some 3.x, MacOS from some
7.x, and looked quite a bit at OS/2 3.x; still most of the time
it was DOS, after PDP11-like Electronica MS0511 at the club were
left behind)

> But I also believe that is in part due to the fact that Open
> Source applications are written better as well :-)

Eric's actually right in some of things he touches there -- doing
One Way is cheaper in terms of non-duplicated functionality,
or at least /was/.  Judging from (ex-)MS developers' blogs,
there's a lot of this kind of trouble lurking in Microsoft
these days.

PS: we've recently tuned things for one of non-profit edu
projects, sample system was PII/64M (supposed to be 128M, 
so added 32M more).  Well it's even striving with KDE3, 
not talking of IceWM and XFCE.  AFAIR Win2K after getting
polished by a local guru was quite usable on similar hw too.

Keywords: tune* :)

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