The really sad thing is now microsfots is telling you *where* you can run thier software. So if I buy a copy of office and I own a copy of windows I am now prevented frmo using them in WINE..No, they're saying they don't support your configuration. If I were msft, I'd completely drop all support for WINE users.
Mike, thats not what they are doing. If it just plain did not work with WINE that would be OK. I dont expect MS to test or even try to make their update software work with anything else. What they did was *go out of their way* to make sure that John Doe running office through wine has to abandon his operating system if he wants to use office. There is no technical reason why this was done!
This was not a support issue. If I called MS support and said I was running office on wine they could tell me to pound sand and they would be well within their rights. Support in the software industry means that if you don't do it the way isuggest youre on your own, it does not mean if you buy a product from me and do it differently I will deny you free upgrades to that product..
When MS broke notes back in the early 90's "Dos aint done till lotus wont run" or when the tried to hijack Java despite a license with sun that said they could not was that all good?
isn't this the time where the open-source boosters are supposed to begin spouting about how superior
'open-source' software is to
anything put out by that evil corporation headed by the nincompoop, Bill Gates?
One wonders why anyone with such superior software would want to run anything by Microsoft?