From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Sg1wm-0003VU-OD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:58:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 58392E0BE0; Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:58:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C6E3E0BD5 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2012 22:56:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjk13 with SMTP id jk13so3587592bkc.40 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:56:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=x8iL9/BSSMFUP6UfIo/vIccBhi/ADI49INSAc8jQ2dc=; b=S5dtnO7fAOca+wDRy0PgGzaeVEYttFJWQ79rc85z5z0VXJURTd0zL/+nL3+j3wabxi Qzj5cNxDf2cNfn0MMdbO4hpUpjZvmJPi05hsfKmy0h1fWOpqN+muXNIwTrefEOx8WneQ OJGiCRAvEHSty2pGBwsryrNbqe5ZhLCjXZCiO2dNYddUZtyPZODRnm44f9NQrCJ+g/LQ s7nLVWM63FpqfSlK1Jassu6kzSi7fbBfr2U0aJwzgA0Q2KmGfFKFRxeGWezBc+/Jx4AG kXM+yi63A8u2gRfjgvMHVXh7SsGlhH0e/DYI5MZQj2SrlcWKpxMg+Jz5Xpn683uzZZO7 +2mg== Received: by 10.204.133.200 with SMTP id g8mr4481205bkt.110.1339887410276; Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:56:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (p4FC6054C.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [79.198.5.76]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gm18sm13895854bkc.7.2012.06.16.15.56.48 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:56:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Alan McKinnon Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Linus ranting about Gnome3 Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:56:42 +0200 Message-ID: <1377575.DyZzJv1phV@energy> User-Agent: KMail/4.9 beta2 (Linux/3.0.30; KDE/4.8.90; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20120616231248.2ad2da1c@khamul.example.com> References: <20120616231248.2ad2da1c@khamul.example.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: 2bdda158-3652-476e-86ce-cfa81e3057f8 X-Archives-Hash: 4fdd4e1b7df5619b06f9d3cd18ee2e26 Am Samstag, 16. Juni 2012, 23:12:48 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:04 +0300 > > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 16/06/12 21:27, walt wrote: > > > I guess they figure the desktop will be extinct relatively soon > > > and their customer base will vanish unless they capture the > > > smartphone market. > > > > Ah yes, the death of the desktop PC, which is happening for 15 years > > now. > > > > Are we dead yet? > > Fine comment. > > Yes indeed, Microsoft's *real* cash cow - millions of corporate > desktops running $LATEST_WINDOWS and $LATEST_OFFICE are all going to > die out inthe next year. Not. and in corporate speak that means Windows XP and Office 2003/2007 because they work, they don't get in the way of doing things, the people are trained and nobody needs to smudge around on the screen, -- #163933