[LINK] Microsoft is dead

[Brenda Aynsley]

Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:44:12AM +0200, Kim Holburn wrote:
>> Microsoft is dead:
>> http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
> 
> i've been saying for a long time that the only people who really need MS
> Windows are home computer users and gamers.  Office users are actually
> better off with Linux (or with Mac). quantity and quality of games is
> the only thing that Windows has over these platforms, and games aren't
> exactly relevant to most office work.
> 
> until yesterday, i assumed that the same held true for multimedia stuff
> too, at least compared to linux (Apple has *always* been the best
> desktop OS for multimedia stuff). getting everything working smoothly
> under linux can be difficult, or has been difficult until recently. i
> just kind of assumed that it would be easy under windows.
> 

[snip]

> 
> total time to get it working under Linux: < 10 minutes. plus an hour
> or so transferring music from the ipod to the computer (and from the
> computer to the ipod) and organising it, and editing the metadata/tags
> to get rid of spelling mistakes etc.
> 

congratulations craig, all this proves is you're very comfortable 
working in the linux environment and know a lot about the various tools 
and utilities to get the job done.  If I'd written that story it would 
have been the reverse.  Linux would have defeated me cos I dont know 
enough about it, whereas windows has a whole raft of utilities to 
achieve what you wanted to achieve, only you didnt know about them, 
whereas i do or would have found them.

cheers
brenda
ps it would not have included using windows media player :)


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