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The Devil You Know
Holy Jesus, I knew Windows Turd Sandwich Vista was bad, but even I never expected this. With Microsoft preparing to discontinue sales of XP on June 30th of this year in order to force victims customers to shell out the cash for Vista, people are panicking. InfoWorld has even started a petition begging the Redmond Politburo to reconsider its decision to mothball XP.
Gee, you think that maybe, just maybe, after wrestling for seven years with an operating system that took two service packs and innumerable updates and security patches to finally become relatively safe and stable, they don’t want to start the whole excruciating process all over again with a new, significantly more expensive OS that delivers no new features of any importance? Can’t imagine why.
Sadly, not even yours truly may be completely free of the Borg Collective’s clutches. My new employer uses a snazzy, server-based system that allows employees to connect remotely and have total access to not only our email and files, but to our desktops, profiles, and even software installed on our work desktops – even if said software is not installed on our home computers.
Problem is, the client application for this system, which must be installed on my home computer for this to work, is only available for Windows. There is not, as yet, a Linux version.
Save me, Wine! If you can’t work your magical voodoo, I may have no choice but to reinstall Windows…and nobody deserves that.
