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2007-09-02 11:26:19
There's a kind of hush
By INQUIRER staff: Friday 31 August 2007, 08:44
PEOPLE in the city of Lund in Sweden that use the Microsoft Vista OS can't
connect to the Internet.
According to this local newspaper, the reason is because Lund is a Linux city
which has a a Linux server that doesn't like Vista.
Lundis Energi blamed Microsoft because Vista has got a bug and it isn't going
to change the configuration of the server just to cope with the flaw.
A local Microsoft rep said it could probably fix the problem if Lundis Energi
got in touch with it.
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Microsoft Vista desktops don't play well with Linux servers.
J. Micah Grunert - Friday, August 31st, 2007 | 11:03AM (PST)
The Vista users of Lund over in Sweden can't access the Internet through their
Linux network.
Imagine, an entire city running its digital infrastructure on Linux. Beautiful,
right? Now imagine the frustration of Vista users when their Microsoft OS
denies them access to the Internet due to some small bug in some Microsoft
code.
Frustrating indeed.
The city of Lund, Sweden has been in the digital dark as Vista OS users cannot
gain Internet access through the city's Linux based communications
infrastructure. The company in charge if that city wide system, Lundis Energi,
had said that the problem persists because of a bug in some Vista code. Lundis
Energi also said that they are in no way willing to change the configuration of
their server to cope with the flaw.
Microsoft hasn't offered any statement of fix as of yet, but a local Microsoft
rep had siad that the folks in Redmond could fix the problem easily enough if
Lundis Energi was just a little more forth coming with the details.
Who's to blame.
Well, both actually. Lundis Energi should have been testing Vista back in its
early alpha release stages to ensure compatibility with their Linux based
server system. On the flip side, Microsoft has to get into gear with increased
interoperability between Vista, Linux, XP, OSX, FreeBSD and every other
operating system choice available on the market today.
Besides, with Apache (a Linux type web server) being the dominant web server
with more than 50 percent market share world wide, Microsoft should bow down
just a little and open a window or two to help let the penguin in. After all,
only a third of the web servers on earth run Microsoft.