On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Ashley wrote:
- Boot the machine
BIOS Error: the DVD-RW drive on channel 0 does not implement EIDE copyright protection. Remove device and press any key.
- Base OS boots up
404 Not Found: The server check-registration.microsoft.com could not be found. Reboot and try again.
- The program is constructed from several modules which are downloaded and
assembled on my machine on demand
s/is constructed from/includes, in addition to the bloated base packages loaded from DVD/
- I do work inside the program
- I save a file
- You finish with the program
In other words, in the next version of MS Windows, you will have dumb terminals! But very fast dumb terminals :) And at this point, interoperability between MS and Linux would be purely academic. There would be no interface between them.
Well, no. There will be linux clients to talk to MS services for sure, mostly in order to retrieve your data from them during the migration to a better OS as people are driven away in droves by increasing "software rental fees" and privacy invasion by nanny-OS.
Do people agree with this, or do I have a distorted view of the future of the MS OS?
You see a future for the MS OS?
Andrew.