Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:05:58 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org> To: "Jeffrey M. Reed" <jmr71769@earthlink.net> Cc: Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect) Message-ID: <20010619190558.C4543@sneakerz.org> In-Reply-To: <01061920032100.00956@alpha1.moonbase>; from jmr71769@earthlink.net on Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:03:21PM -0400 References: <200106181202.AA66191580@stmail.pace.edu> <87d781h0f6.fsf@ghidra.vail> <01061920032100.00956@alpha1.moonbase>
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* Jeffrey M. Reed <jmr71769@earthlink.net> [010619 19:01] wrote: > On Monday 18 June 2001 18:45, Hal Snyder wrote: > > FYA. > > > > Migrating Microsoft® Hotmail® from FreeBSD to Microsoft > > Windows® 2000 Technical Case Study > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/migration/hotmail/hotapp > >.asp > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the > > message > > point made. they're migrating to 2K because 2K is just a [snip] No actually they migrated because thier sales people kept getting laughed at because Hotmail was running on something other than win2k. > the only thing good about M$ is they make a decent > GUI...that's it. Not that X is so wonderful, but please.. The MS windows GUI is boring, and overbearing, it lacks remote display without add-on and there's very little flexiblity in what your desktop can do. The look and feel of Windows sucks rocks, the only thing they(*) got right was being able to do a decent job with drag and drop. (*) by they, I mean Apple of course. :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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