How To: Windows XP Mode In...Ubuntu Linux?

[Thomas Milne]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 03:59:47PM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
>> Honestly, who the heck cares? Guaranteed, the underlying OS is exactly
>> the same as it's always been, a kludged derivative of Windows 3.1.
>> Perhaps they've acquired a couple of other proprietary doodads to
>> throw in for managing photos or something, but in the end it's all the
>> same story: security will be trivially compromised, anything you want
>> to accomplish beyond the basics will require either the purchase or
>> pirating of 3rd party software, and if you want support, well, good
>> luck with that.
>
> No it is a derivative ot Windows NT 3.1.  Nothing to do with windows
> 3.1 which ran on top of DOS.  The last windows to be related to that
> was Windows Me.
>
Granted. To the end user, however, the result is the same. I don't
think I need to tell you that we're splitting hairs here ;)
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