Re: [SLUG] interesting rumour

[Rev Simon Rumble <simon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 09:21:02AM +1000, Arthur Barton uttered:

> WinInfo says Microsoft has been working for the past year with a company
> called Mainsoft to port Windows to Linux and, possibly, other versions of
> UNIX.

Mainsoft did the port of Visual Source Safe to Solaris.  It was pretty
abysmal -- Win 3.11 interface which totally ignored the conventions of
X.

> It's apparently a complicated business to get Windows applications to
> run normally in Linux, and so far results are disappointing. See
> http://www.wininformant.com/display.asp?ID=2874

They have to replicate all the bugs and memory leaks to get it to work.

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