“In the year to come, we expect to see Linux maintain its torrid development pace, with major new enterprise releases from Red Hat, which is set to ship RHEL 5 in January, and Novell, which will also ship an update to its Open Enterprise Server early next year. What’s more, we expect to see one or two new releases from each of the all-free leading-edge distributions we track – including Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE – along
with new developments from the swelling horde of smaller Linux flavors, in
both commercial and noncommercial quarters.”
I saw “Outlook 2007” in the thread title, and my mind jumped to a certain software program from a certain proprietary vendor. Doh! And I don’t even use that program anymore….
I immediately associated with support for the Outlook 2007 mail storage format in Evolution. That would be nice by the way.
Me too. 😛
Since I had long ago taken to calling the MS program “Outhouse”, I was not taken in by this.
I knew that childish side of me would come in handy some day! 😉
MS Outhouse, to be used with mSexchange.
:p
I immediately associated with support for the Outlook 2007 mail storage format in Evolution. That would be nice by the way.
Yeah, me too. I mostly like Microsoft software, but Outlook is a horrible, horrible program. I’ve had to use it at work for the past 7-8 years, and I hate it with a passion.
I was kinda hoping this article was going to talk about some open source Exchange-compatable Outlook program that runs on Windows
I mostly like Microsoft software, but Outlook is a horrible, horrible program. I’ve had to use it at work for the past 7-8 years, and I hate it with a passion.
You can’t possibly comprehend the true nature of a horrible, horrible messaging platform unless you’ve used Lotus Notes.
I’ve been forced to use that abomination for the last 7-8 years, and would welcome Outlook with open arms.
Even better if it was supported on linux. I too fell for the headline at first…
Outlook is a horrible, horrible program. I’ve had to use it at work for the past 7-8 years, and I hate it with a passion.
I could not agree more.
Transfering email between different versions of outlook is an absolute nightmare. Msft has crippled outlook so that outlook users are no longer able calendar information without exchange. And why do I have to seperate email names with a “;” instead of a “,” ??
I have put Thunderbird on both sides of a dual-boot system, and it works great. Both windows and linux read and write to the same message base. I never have to worry about not be able to transfer my email between email clients.
Msft makes some fairly decent software, but outlook just sucks.
I hope not!
Good, Thom. Glad to see you have a sense of humor! 😎
Maturity throughout the applications, further GUI refinements, Ubuntu release pushing things forward, better open graphics drivers!
I thought Novell really had something for a minute….
i think that steven has proved time and time again that his little opinions arent usually correct, after all he made several big blunders
here are the two most recent
claimed that ATI was considering opening their drivers
claimed that the novell-satan deal would not leave linx users with an “open balance sheet”
what has he got against debian anyway he seems very combative torwards it
their wont be any crack, i beleive that even if we get binary blobs into the kernel once linux gets a stranglehold on the market it will exercise its might and coerce retailers to FOSS ideals. the kernel devs know this, first they have to get a stranglehold
The article is not by Steven Vaughan Nicols.
What the article says is right though, it always will be hard for Desktop Linux to make bigger inroads as long as MS has the OEM market sewn up. They’ve owned that part of the PC market for so long. I don’t see live CDs as necessarily the answer, but that court case in France may start opening the door to break the monopoly on the high street.
I don’t see it changing on its own as MS has such power in that segment with their exclusivity contracts. Their whole push with the “Naked PC” thing a while back showed just how much power they have. No company should be able to make such demands on an industry.
From TFA “Next year will be a big one for Linux, with new platforms and opportunities in the data center.”
Most of the things he points out are more of the same, we get new releases and features every year. I think Ubuntu’s rise through 2006 is probably as significant as anything we will see in 2007.
Also, early 2007 marks the consumer release of Vista, DirectX10 (DXX?), and a few other major products from MS. 2006 was a slow year in terms of product releases from MS as XP is now over 5 years old.
2007 could very well be as or more significant for the Linux competitors as Linux itself.
Edited 2006-12-21 08:34