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- hildenborg, on 03/12/2009, -1/+92"The two biggest differences are the icons and the games. Games are not our priority."
That was a very good point indeed. - Vadi0, on 03/12/2009, -2/+84"Moving from Microsoft XP to Vista would not have brought us many advantages and Microsoft said it would require training of users. Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy."
Pft, and here I thought Linux is completely unusable by your average computer user... - ptFoe, on 03/12/2009, -3/+57Hopefully they will use some of the millions to fund Linux projects.
- dvsbastard, on 03/12/2009, -2/+45Unfortunately this isn't an option for all industries - but if all your required business applications run on Linux, then you would be crazy not to do this!
- melodeath666, on 03/12/2009, -4/+46Well at least the French are smart..
- Eorster, on 03/12/2009, -5/+41Crazy socialists! Do they not see what they are doing to my Microsoft stock? How can Ubuntu be better? It's free! Nothing free is worth trying... now move along before you get any ideas. And remember fear is good, for my stock. Be very fearful for my stock's well being.
- mithrasinvictus, on 03/12/2009, -3/+35A microsoft horror story, once they dump office the rest goes as well.
- adderx99, on 03/12/2009, -2/+32~$sudo apt-get install doughnut
- codyman, on 03/12/2009, -10/+40so does this mean that the French surrendered their copies of windows over to an army of invading penguins?
- volume4, on 03/12/2009, -3/+29That is so cool! A real ouch for Microsoft though.
- amoeba, on 03/12/2009, -1/+24now _that_ is good news.
- oobuntu, on 03/12/2009, -0/+21for lots of people, this just means openoffice and firefox.
- gargantuan, on 03/12/2009, -5/+25Hopefully, this is the beginning of the end for Microsoft. I honestly believe that their strangle hold on the market and their undeniable efforts to stifle innovation in computing across the board has cost the human race dearly. Or at the very least, I'd like to see the market split between three or four players so we can get back to the business of selling machines and software on their relative merits and not on some engineered fear of "compatibility issues".
- hieveryone, on 03/12/2009, -0/+19Moving from XP to Vista does require training. "Hey, where did the start button go?" or "What is this popup that keeps showing up that asks for permission?" or "What the hell happened to the start menu?" Any move to a new interface requires some training.
- Wandel, on 03/12/2009, -0/+17You underestimate the stupidity of non-tech savvy people.
- smacksaw, on 03/12/2009, -0/+16$ sudo apt-get install beignet --svp
- hieveryone, on 03/12/2009, -2/+18"Yeah, they're happy about it now, but wait until they actually roll it out."
Then they'll wonder why they didn't think of it sooner. - Daniel0, on 03/12/2009, -0/+16"[…] on licensing and maintenance costs […]"
- anon999, on 03/12/2009, -2/+17This is, for instance, a projects done by them for that migration
http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/ - anon999, on 03/12/2009, -1/+15They have already rolled out 5000 workstations...
- pweltz, on 03/12/2009, -1/+14If a french policeman is able to use Linux, it does prove Linux is ready for the masses !
- gargantuan, on 03/12/2009, -0/+12what an incredibly trite and unfounded comment.
- JantjePietje, on 03/12/2009, -1/+12Lt. Col. Guimard. "Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy. The two biggest differences are the icons and the games. Games are not our priority."
Dugg for the understatement of " games are not our priority" - paulsmith288, on 03/12/2009, -0/+10Bug - our machines have not started going slow for no reason.
Bug - our machines are not part a bot net sending child porn and breaking xbox live
Bug - our machines do not have patch tuesday meaning we can actually work on them
I could go on and on and on... - korvins, on 03/12/2009, -2/+12This year is going to be Linux year... no, wait, serious!
Not the year everybody will use it, but the year, more people will go to their libraries, to their public computers, to the Russian schools, to many many places, and they will see linux. Maybe they will be computers just for surfing the web, or just to see the catalog of products of their shop, but they will see it and use directly. People will still use Windows and MacOS at home, but they are going to see more frequently and this will be the year most people will see Linux for their first time. Also new IT generations will start to be mostly using non-Microsoft OSs.
Dropping from 90% share is not something irrelevant. It means breaking the monopoly, it means breaking the minimum critic mass to be able to have a working system.
So the year of non-Microsoft systems is when the monopoly is broken, and alternatives are avalaible and suitable. I believe this is the year. - dawnraid101, on 03/12/2009, -1/+11Well I solved the problem, I buried both of you as duplicates, *Insert Mickey Mouse Ahahu*.
- CoD4, on 03/12/2009, -4/+14They didn't want to be a bonapart of it anymore
- zimluura, on 03/12/2009, -3/+12with ubuntu there is no more police brutality. thus, millions saved in lawsuits.
- tunafizzle, on 03/12/2009, -0/+9It's nonsense. I wonder, are your grammars coherent? Me doubt.
- ArthurSucks, on 03/12/2009, -4/+13French Police: We saved a bunch of money on our car insurance after switching to geico.
- tunafizzle, on 03/12/2009, -1/+10Because ubuntu is one of the most popular linux distros?
- smacksaw, on 03/12/2009, -4/+12What they don't say in the article is what I wonder - do they have a proprietary application?
I bet they do. I bet they have an old Telnet/3270 terminal application that already runs on a 'NIX server of some sort and that regardless of Windows 3.1, Ubuntu or MacOS, they use a terminal emulator to access the program. Every police car I see today with a laptop has some sort of crappy terminal program running in it. And you know what? That's fine. That's all these people need - simple proprietary programs.
Windows is such overkill. It is so powerful and does SO many things, there are very few users with a specific job that need it's many capabilities. Windows is hard to pare down. Linux can really be shaved down to the bare minimum and then you get excellent performance and a longer duty cycle for the machines running it. Of course it costs a lot more to set up Linux and there are far fewer people out there supporting it, but in the end it's gonna be cheaper than Byzantine licencing schemes and upgrades of tons of hardware to ultra-powerful specs to run a new version of Windows that is FAR more than what a user will ever utilise. - Joh739, on 03/12/2009, -0/+8had the same fought a few years ago, tries openSuSe and I was amazed and hooked.
- ligyron, on 03/12/2009, -5/+11So that we have two front page stories about the same article? No thanks. Buried that submission
- inactive, on 03/12/2009, -1/+7Sweet. Now use that money to buy yourselves back from the pockets of the media mafia (RIAA/MPAA and their ilk).
- tunafizzle, on 03/12/2009, -0/+6why? do you type like this...
this....
douchebag - RetepNamenots, on 03/12/2009, -2/+8It was submitted seconds earlier, not hours or days.
- ChuqAU, on 03/13/2009, -0/+5Gotta love the way "will require training of users" was used by MS with the intention of bleeding even more money from them, where it actually had the exact opposite effect. :)
- myon87, on 03/12/2009, -1/+6Yeah I thought that sounded a bit unrealistic aswell. BUT! They did state that it wasn't only the operating system. They have done the switch from Microsoft Office "and other applications like Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird". They might count with the hardware upgrade aswell.
So...maybe they are realistic? - Galphanore, on 03/12/2009, -0/+4No more then there are driver support issues for vista 64 bit. For my laptop I had more trouble finding Vista 64 bit drivers then I did getting drivers to work for Ubuntu. In fact, the only driver that didn't work right out of the box on Linux was the wireless driver, and that took all of five minutes to download and install. Vista 64, however, I was never able to find a truly functional video driver for. No matter what I tried it would still crash once or twice a day.
- logir, on 03/13/2009, -0/+4Victorious Velociraptor
- gargantuan, on 03/12/2009, -1/+5Pun.
- daemonfae9, on 03/12/2009, -0/+4Generic policemen are generally not very computer savvy to begin with, I'd say that bodes well for ubuntu.
Granted, using ubuntu for common work-tasks is really not different from using windows in all honesty.
For the average user there is still some issues when it comes down to driver support and such in linux though... - OneOfNone, on 03/12/2009, -0/+4Welcome to Earth, year 2009 CE! In case you didn't notice, there's a global economic crisis going on, budgets are limited, and everyone is cutting expenses. So I guess someone in France is VERY happy they did not get get fired in order to pay that $65M.
- inactive, on 03/13/2009, -0/+4Luckily the trend is that an increasing number of applications are web-based. And thank god Microsoft failed to monopolize web standards.
- Feldon, on 03/12/2009, -0/+3Microsoft has reached it's end how can you hope to keep going when everything around you is free and open source, and your sitting on Close Source and charging an arm and a leg in an economy like this.
- philkav, on 03/12/2009, -1/+4What the hell is going on? Why are YOU, the poster of this story, asking us to digg the exact same story, submitted by msaleem, one of diggs all time top diggars???? what?
- donnytomas, on 03/12/2009, -1/+4Nuf Sed
- smacksaw, on 03/12/2009, -0/+3Dude...migration training is the bread and butter for trainers such as myself. The courseware isn't "hey dope, your ***** is the same", it becomes a differential sort of training, a review and then differences. You have to go in and learn what they do and show them how it's the same or if it's different.
- inactive, on 03/12/2009, -0/+3how much I wish that was true, "Microsoft has reached it's end". Hopefully that is going to happen soon enough. :)
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