[Novalug] Microsoft to open stores next to Apple stores + Illogical M$ fan

[William Sutton]

Why would you *want* a Linux version of iTunes when Amarok is so much 
nicer?  And even then a lot of Windows software runs just fine under wine 
or vmware.

And from the gaming PoV, why keep upgrading your PC every 6 months if 
you're going to get (most of) the same games on a game console that you 
can hook up to your big flat screen TV?

William Sutton

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Stephen Cicirelli wrote:

> Eh, he probably means games.  He's got a PS3 and a Wii, so he's probably a
> pretty hardcore gamer and getting new high end games to work on Linux is
> difficult at best.
>
> Is there a Linux version of iTunes?
>
> -stephen
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell at qis.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Here is an article about Micro$oft planning to open stores next to Apple
>> stores:
>>
>>
>> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/microsoft-to-open-retail-stores-next-to-apples/#comments
>>
>> Here is an illogical comment by Posted by: thatguyalex | 07/15/09 | 11:44
>> pm:
>> <quote>
>>
>> 5 years ago I was using Windows XP, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer,
>> Windows Media Player, and Hotmail. Today I used Windows Vista, Open Office,
>> Firefox, VLC and Gmail.
>>
>> It’s almost as if Microsoft should just stick to making OS’s and selling
>> Office to corporate clients.
>>
>> I can’t imagine what I would want to go into a Microsoft store for. An
>> XBOX? (please - I own a PS3 and Wii)…A Zune? (I have two ipods)…an OS? (I
>> will get it whenever I buy a new PC)…
>>
>> It’s not that I am against Microsoft (I’d sooner choke that use Apple’s
>> overrated OS and Linux can’t run anything I want), I just think they fail to
>> understand that most of their products are 2nd rate and people choose them
>> almost by default
>> <end quote>
>>
>> They guy claims that Linux cannot run anything he wants to run yet all the
>> aps he lists as currently being used are available as Linux aps.
>>
>> Do you suppose that this poster does not know that Open Office, Firefox,
>> VLC and Gmail are Linux aps?
>>
>> Of course Linux being open source and in many flavors does not have clever
>> TV ads. :-)
>>
>> Weird.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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