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Article #621957Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ...
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 11:00
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 11:00
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On 4/22/2018 4:24 AM, Bob Eager wrote: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 02:00:40 -0500, Charles Richmond wrote: > >> On 4/21/2018 9:11 PM, J. Clarke wrote: >>> On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 02:44:22 +0200, "Carlos E.R." >>> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote: >>> >>>> On 2018-04-21 18:43, John Levine wrote: >>>>> In article <pbfi85$ek7$1...@dont-email.me>, >>>>> Gareth's Downstairs Computer >>>>> <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>>>> ... by its monopolistic attitude towards the PC now that the World >>>>>> and its family are moving en masse to the ARM processors? >>>>> >>>>> Microsoft doesn't care what processors people use. There are >>>>> versions of Windows for all sorts of chips and of Office for all >>>>> sorts of operating systems. >>>> >>>> Ah, yes? Care to say where can we download Office for Linux? >>> >>> Depends on how you define "Linux". There is an Android version and an >>> OS/X version. Most people who use Linux as Linux would reject anything >>> from Microsoft on general principle so they probably quite rightly see >>> no market there. >>> >>> >>> >> Mac OS X is bsed on BSD... > > Pedantically, BSD has little to do with Linux. I mention this ebcause a > number of people seem to think that BSD is a 'Linux distro'! > Perhaps those who think BSD is a Linux distro... never heard of Bill Joy. :-) -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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