Comments on: How to speed up M$ Windows [only kidding] http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/10/08/how-to-speed-up-m-windows-only-kidding/ The Magic of Open Source Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:17:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Alan Lord http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/10/08/how-to-speed-up-m-windows-only-kidding/comment-page-1/#comment-131 Alan Lord Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:07:54 +0000 http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/10/08/how-to-speed-up-m-windows-only-kidding/#comment-131 Thanks for commenting Michael. As I mention in a more recent article, M$'s Office dominance of the market "may" well be on the wane. With SaaS solutions and ever increasing deployments of OOo perhaps there will be an alternative soon. Anyway good luck with supporting Vista - it sounds like you'll need it. Since migrating my desktop to Ubuntu I have suffered none of the problems you described in your article. Cheers Alan Thanks for commenting Michael. As I mention in a more recent article, M$’s Office dominance of the market “may” well be on the wane. With SaaS solutions and ever increasing deployments of OOo perhaps there will be an alternative soon.

Anyway good luck with supporting Vista – it sounds like you’ll need it. Since migrating my desktop to Ubuntu I have suffered none of the problems you described in your article.

Cheers

Alan

]]> By: Michael http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/10/08/how-to-speed-up-m-windows-only-kidding/comment-page-1/#comment-130 Michael Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:28:59 +0000 http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/10/08/how-to-speed-up-m-windows-only-kidding/#comment-130 Alan, I personally don’t see any Open Source alternative for Vista at the moment. However, some faculties on our university see this differently. They moved completely to Linux. Their students are usually science students though. Perhaps that’s why they have fewer problems switching from Windows to Linux than students of the humanities. Our students simply expect MS Office. They use it on their computers at home and this is what they have to know when they later get a job. Yet, I always would prefer Linux as server software to host content management systems. In this field, Open Source is the better choice in my view. Alan, I personally don’t see any Open Source alternative for Vista at the moment. However, some faculties on our university see this differently. They moved completely to Linux. Their students are usually science students though. Perhaps that’s why they have fewer problems switching from Windows to Linux than students of the humanities. Our students simply expect MS Office. They use it on their computers at home and this is what they have to know when they later get a job. Yet, I always would prefer Linux as server software to host content management systems. In this field, Open Source is the better choice in my view.

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