SuperLinux Encyclopedia - Microsoft

Living with the Monster:

• WinDriver for Linux  SW to develop Windows-Linux compatible drivers.
• DOSEMU  M$-DOS emulator.
• FreeDOS  A free replacement for M$-DOS.
• Interix Softway Systems, Inc.  Run Linux/Unix software on WinNT.
• UMSDOS  Run Linux from a M$DOS directory.
• WINE  Windows (3.1, 95, & 98) emulator.
• Halcyon Software ($ & demo; "transition-ware"; products allow use of some M$ SW under Java on Unix)
• NTRIGUE  Run NT apps from X11 on unixy OSes.
• LinPopUp  Linux version of "Winpopup", running over Samba.
• Linux Services for Macintosh and Windows Users
• mtools  "a collection of utilities to access MS-DOS disks from Unix without mounting them"
• VBVM "a portable version of Microsoft's Visual Basic Virtual Machine" ($ & beta; runs V.B. on Linux)
• System Abstraction Layer  "Abstraction of multitasking, file IO and socket IO for Unix and Windows systems."
• WinFrame or MetaFrame+M$TS  /. discussion of Citrix's WinFrame & MetaFrame + M$ Terminal Server
• Accessing Linux from DOS!?  Jul'95 LG
• Ask Slashdot: NT Domain Management Utilities under Linux
• Ask Slashdot: Mounting NT Shares on Solaris, Irix and Other Unixen
• VMware  "a thin software layer that effectively frees users from the "one machine, one operating system" model of computing and enables multiple operating systems and associated applications to run concurrently on a single machine" [believe-it-or-not]

Anti-Microsoft:

• Someone asked if BG & SB were a vegetarians and was told: no, they are humanitarians.
• Funnies (most not mine):
  • Alternate pronunciations of "Microsoft": MediocreSoft, MonopolySoft, MacroSoft, MicroSlut, MonopolySystem.
  • Alternate pronunciations of "Windows": Windoze, Winblows, Losedoze.
  • Microsoft is to software what McDonalds is to food.
  • Visual Basic makes the easy things easier; Delphi makes the hard things easier. (Bruce McKinney)
  • New wording on "Start" button: "Start spending money".
  • Microsoft: Where in Hell do you want to go today?
  • NT: Not Today, Nutty/Nasty/Numskull/Nudnik Technology.
  • Variation: Windows makes easy things easier; Linux makes hard things easier.
• Why you shouldn't use Microsoft products  A site with many links and a good introductory editorial.
• How to buy a laptop without M$ OS  Saga of someone who managed to get refund.
• KMFMS  Neat artwork and products.
• evade the microsoft monopoly
• NetAction (Good, serious site devoted to slowing down the monopoly and other Internet freedom issues.)
• From MSWord to MSWorld "How Microsoft is Building a Global Monopoly."
• List of M$ takeovers  Letters from people being forced to switch from Macs to Wintel.
• The Windows takeover of NASA's KSC at Cape Canaveral
• How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates (an unflattering version of how BG got rich)
• Why Bill Gates is Richer than You (great page)
• International Anti-MS Network (a Webring >170-site list)
• Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes
• Microsoft: The Joker of Enterprise IS Computing at aberdeen.com 27sep97
• NetAction (techno-activists, anti-M$)
• Why Microsoft Will Crush Your ISP
• Team Hates!
• The Anti-Microsoft Webring

Pro-Microsoft:

• Not spoken here.

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