“The author of the Windows file copy dialog visits some friends.” And of course the Alternate Text “They could say “the connection is probably lost,” but it’s more fun to do naive time-averaging to give you hope that if you wait around for 1,163 hours, it will finally finish.”
Check It Out> XKCD
Now that the whole concept of a Google Operating System is starting to sink in a lot of people are really trying to understand what it will be like. Another thing that has been revealed today is that Microsoft has a huge announcement coming next week that could be regarding Gazelle. If in fact it is, Microsoft could seriously one-up Google.
From my previous article about Gazelle: Gazelle’s Browser Kernel is an operating system that exclusively manages resource protection and sharing across web site principals. This construction exposes intricate design issues that no previous work has identified, such as legacy protection of cross-origin script source, and cross-principal, cross-process display and events protection.
We will have to wait until Microsoft springs another leak (or next week) to find out what the announcement is all about. Meanwhile if you are looking for some good humor regarding Google Chrome OS, here is a post from the Woot! blog by Dave Rutledge titled “11 Undocumented Features Of Google Chrome OS”.
And for those not familiar with Woot!, make sure you check out their daily deals at Woot.com.
Check It Out> Gazelle (OS Attack), Woot!
My previous post was from a humorous side by asking the question “What if Microsoft did buy Ubuntu?” which my friend Andrew Seay decided to answer it in the comments of that post. His response is so good that I decided to make it an official post. Whether or not this could actually happen it is fun to hypothesize:
What would happen if Microsoft did “buy” Ubuntu?
1st – All open source code would “mysteriously” self implode leaving no trace it ever existed.
2nd – Integration of IE6.0 for all non EU downloads.
3rd – Silverlight becomes the only supported media player.
4th – Bing becomes the only supported search engine.
5th – The Open Office icon now links to a trial of M$ Office 2007
6th – Win AntiVirus Pro 2006 would release a Premium Ubuntu version.
7th – M$’s marketing department would insist on the creation of a new GSOD (Green Screen of Death) just for Ubuntu to help protect Windows “reputation”.
8th – Ubuntu Server edition while still free + P&H, would no longer be available for download, but only via new boxed edition. (Processing and Handling = $1500 per box + $100 per user license envelope)
9th – We would all learn the “Value of Genuine Ubuntu Software” via a new Activation and Validation process.
10th – There would now be 27 different versions of Ubuntu, priced from the $29 “Emerging Market” Starter Version to Ubuntu Ultimate for $499 (with a free copy of XP virtual machine for TRULY backwards compatibility).
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Look at that picture a little closer. It appears that Dell has released the secret that all Ubuntu haters have suspected… Ubuntu is a Microsoft product.
Etiole stumbled across this and posted it for the rest of us to enjoy at both Microsoft’s and Ubuntu’s expense but it does open up another question. What would happen if Microsoft did “buy” Ubuntu?
