Despite all of its automation and graphical splendor, Windows XP brings its share of quirks to the table. Bill O'Brien believes that Microsoft has finally made an operating system that Linux users will love.
The day that we've all feared is soon to arrive: Microsoft has finally made an operating system that Linux users will love: Windows XP.
So XP looks a lot like Windows ME with a pompadour. I can forgive the looks, and there are options to use the more classic Windows GUI. On the other hand, as the upgrade proceeded, I lost the sound card; EZ CD Creator 5.0 was rejected as unusable, making the CD-RW drive just a motorized cup holder (the integrated CD-RW software in XP, although borrowed from Roxio, creates open session CDs that EZ CD 5.0 cannot recognize); and Cyberlink's PowerDVD software was deemed unacceptable, giving the DVD drive no reason to live. See, very Linux-like.
Truthfully, Microsoft should develop a Linux version of its entire office suite so it can put a wrap on all markets, but it has no real incentive to do so. In comparison to almost anything else, the Linux market is relatively small in Microsoft's eyes. Worse still, the legacy of open source has left us with no one representative body that can speak for Linux and cajole Microsoft into doing it, the way Apple wined and dined Microsoft for its Mac.
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