Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5131
By the way, this is based on the same flawed premise that a lot of post-Y2K griping was based on. It went like this, "wow, we get all concerned and spent all this money...
Ok, let me spell it out for you: If all your applications are web based, and the OS shouldn't matter, why do Linux distributions matter? It doesn't matter which one you use to run, for example, OpenOffice. Yet people pick a certain distribution. Why? Well, one reason is that people like to belong to a group. So even if it really doesn't matter which OS you are going to use to access a web application, or even which browser, people will pick a certain browser, and a certain OS, just because.
How much?
Does it matter? There are webpages that just don't work for some people, no matter that they do work for others. You can't just make up one standard average user and design the web for it.
Hey, me too :-) (SR1505LA to be exactly, and it does work with Kubuntu, or at least I get a picture).
Me too (but that was to get rid of the Spanish XP)
Now that's odd, since mine worked, network, video, sound, etc.
John Bokma By giving IE away for free, by ripping off spyglbutt, by paying OEMs to...
Odd, very odd. But I am quite sure that if you don't have a driver for a certain chip set, that it doesn't matter who puts the chip set on a piece of PCB, it isn't going to work.
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