Tuesday, April 12, 2005

The Linux Box: Why I Switched to Linux

The Linux Box: Why I Switched to Linux:
"Here's another example. One day, you come home from work and just want to relax and watch a DVD movie. Once again, Microsoft is miles ahead in creating an incomplete operating system. Windows XP has the capability to play a DVD, but not out of the box. Playing a DVD requires you to spend at least $30 on a commercial DVD encoder first."

Since when is DVD software part of the operating system. Linux has people spoiled! :)
Poor Microsoft probably finds itself in a hard place when the Antitrust people keep running after them when they try to include stuff in the OS, while Linux keeps adding world class applications to its list.

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...