2008/6/28 Timeout <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx>: > That example would be an experience for Windows users!!! > Usually one say that the strength of Window is to be sold with computer so that every user (unregarding their abilities in the field) would use Windows without thinking of what they actually had on the computer. > Now the user would get a barebone O/S, should he wants to use a browser, he will get the message "the Internet module had not been yet install). Please install the internet module to proceed further. Now they want to watch their holliday picture and get the message "no video software installed -please run the install disk". See also these two Slashdot comments: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=594247&cid=23930753 http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=594247&cid=23972417 "From what I can gather it is like the engineers have been pushed out and the marketing guys have taken over and their answer for everything is "how can we get more revenue out of it?". And right now they seem to be buzzed over the idea of "value added post sale add ons" which sounds like selling functionality as separate modules instead of including it in the OS. Now I wouldn't mind for something like,say adding an MCE interface to an existing OS. But from the way these guys are talking they are going to make Windows more like a rental than a purchase to keep the revenue stream high. I personally feel if they go this route they better get used to patching XP and we better ALL get used to seeing huge botnets, as those that won't be able to buy XP will simply get a buddy to pirate it and they'll never update for fear of WGA." > I am sure she will like it!! [Laughing] I'm sure Steve Jobs will be laughing all the way to the bank too. Vista is the greatest Macintosh marketing tool ever. This is getting pretty off-topic :-) But my point is, Wine on Windows will become a valuable project, and possibly even commercially viable. The main thing would be to make Cygwin good enough, then tweaks to Wine itself to play nicer (e.g. make Wine regedit not trash the host registry). - d.
