Windows and Linux
Great post at
Friction and Harmony:
Making Microsoft the Penguin’s Bitch
Take a close look. Microsoft has validated my installation of Windows XP and is telling me that I’m eligible for a honey of a deal on an upgrade to Microsoft Vista. Sweet! (Ha - NOT!)
Big deal? Sure. Now look where Windows XP is running…
IN A VIRTUAL MACHINE UNDER LINUX!!
Heh.
Now I can have my native MS Office applications and documents without having to run a dual-boot system! (…although my system still has dual-boot capability installed with GRUB.)
Now that *is* sweet!
Oh, and yes, it runs quite beautifully with Beryl installed. And Windows XP has no clue that it’s running in a sandbox…
Very cute technique. Linux has advanced more in the last few years than any Microsoft product. XP is now the stable operating system of choice. I have one machine with Vista on it (the back office computer used for accounting and some web design) and it has had its share of issues. I would not install Vista on a production machine for another year at least.
And regarding the server market, Linux (and other Unixes) owns the server market. From
Netcraft:
Three of the 10 most most reliable hosts run their web sites on Linux, two on Windows, three on FreeBSD and one on Solaris.
Posted by DaveH at July 4, 2007 9:03 PM