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Re: [News] Get the Latest Windows, Get ~1000 Almost-working Applications

  • Subject: Re: [News] Get the Latest Windows, Get ~1000 Almost-working Applications
  • From: Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:49:10 -0700
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
  • References: <1250469.hE3yMaj69q@schestowitz.com>
  • User-agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux))
  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:514986
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:33:31 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> How To Manage Windows Vista Application Compatibility
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | As of the end of March, 2007, 129 applications were certified or designed
> | for Windows Vista, and 922 applications worked or were compatible with
> | Windows Vista. Think that's a lot? Well, it does add up to over 1,000
> | applications you can run on Windows Vista with few, if any, issues.
> | But, given that there are tens of thousands of applications designed
> | for Windows, this first thousand is just a drop in the bucket.
> `----
> 
> http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=198800462
> 
> Choose GNU/Linux because it has far more applications. 

No kidding.  What's Debian up to now, something like 13,000 packages?

Meanwhile, there's Vista.  Safer?  Sure - if you can't run apps on it,
it's hard to compromise the apps. :)



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