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Ballmer: Microsoft to go after Linux strongholds (ZDNet)

Ballmer: Microsoft to go after Linux strongholds (ZDNet)

Posted Oct 21, 2005 11:26 UTC (Fri) by xtifr (subscriber, #143)
In reply to: Ballmer: Microsoft to go after Linux strongholds (ZDNet) by The_Flatlander
Parent article: Ballmer: Microsoft to go after Linux strongholds (ZDNet)

I think the developers of Lindows/Linspire (no user accounts, everything runs as root) may be working on competing with MS in this arena. :)


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Apparently it is not quite the same...

Posted Oct 22, 2005 17:40 UTC (Sat) by grantingram (subscriber, #18390) [Link]

I've never actually used Linspire but they do apparently let you create user accounts at installation. As always Wikipedia provides some useful information. (Linspire Criticisms)

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