Channel 9 - Discussions by barlo_mung http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by barlo_mung http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/barlo_mung/Discussions Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/barlo_mung/Discussions en Mon, 20 May 2013 13:56:47 GMT Mon, 20 May 2013 13:56:47 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Coffeehouse - WINE lockout
Cairo wrote:
From /. (of course!)

This reminds me of when Windows 3.0 checked specifically for whether the underlying DOS was MS-DOS, and threw an error if it wasn't.



For starters this is nothing like that.  Also, Larry Osterman has an interesting explanation about that MSDOS issue at:
http://weblogs.asp.net/larryosterman/archive/2004/08/12/213681.aspx

Long story short: Windows relied on and modified a lot of the data structures in MSDos.  Any Dos clone would need to be a Perfect clone or Windows would fail.  So requiring MSDos made sense.  Their mistake was trying to hide that fact instead of being open about it.  Too bad they didn't have Channel 9 back then.

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Yggdrasil wrote:
Richard Grimes wrote:
The framework has become Visual Basic—it's intended for users to develop applications, but not for Microsoft to create operating systems


And that's bad, because...?


And it's not even true.  Watching the C9 videos they always ask the developers what tools they use.  Most of the time they say they use managed code where ever the can.

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matt0210 wrote:
The licencse you get with the OS is not restricted to the computer you bought it with, however, you only have one licence, obviously.


So the original poster was still full of crap about it not being a single system license. It's just easier to break the agreement with the Mac and steal the software. This isn't a problem for Apple because of the small install base. If they get up out of the single digits, economies of scale will start to take over and they would see some benefit in an activation process. Do you really think they wouldn't do it if it was in their best ($$$) interest?


As a side note. XP isn't restricted to one system either. I've upgraded my home system 3 times now still using the same boxed version of XP Pro. I removed it from the old systems so the license is valid. I still just have it running on one system.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/34418-Mac-Mini/a872ea907bee45d29a8c9dea013ba35c#a872ea907bee45d29a8c9dea013ba35c Thu, 13 Jan 2005 07:10:57 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/34418-Mac-Mini/a872ea907bee45d29a8c9dea013ba35c#a872ea907bee45d29a8c9dea013ba35c barlo_mung 6 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/barlo_mung/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - the mac mini It's really more like they are copying the Cappuccino PC.
http://www.cappuccinopc.com/mocha.asp

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/34204-the-mac-mini/9928459ec8f34eafa6a09dea013b6b88#9928459ec8f34eafa6a09dea013b6b88 Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:46:40 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/34204-the-mac-mini/9928459ec8f34eafa6a09dea013b6b88#9928459ec8f34eafa6a09dea013b6b88 barlo_mung 43 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/barlo_mung/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - the mac mini My first reaction was that it looks neat but it is still over priced. Instead of dropping important items like the monitor, mouse and keyboard they should have just reduced the price of the imac or even the emac.

People seem to like shiny things though so I'm sure it will sell. One thing apple knows how to do is market so more power to them I guess. At least they aren't forcing people to pay the Apple tax this time with the one button mouse.

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Just one man's spin of the theory wheel though.

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