Heck, just trademarks alone would be enough to take this down, both from Canonical and Microsoft.
> Any redistribution of modified versions of Ubuntu must be approved, certified or provided by Canonical if you are going to associate it with the Trademarks. Otherwise you must remove and replace the Trademarks and will need to recompile the source code to create your own binaries
Somehow I have a feeling that this was not approved by Canonical
This is great, but I'm going to wait for service pack 2, hopefully with included invasive telemetry, candy crush and an antimalware scanner that makes every IO 100x slower.
I am really tempted to try this in a VM just to see how far it goes.
Call me harsh, but I think this is one of those things that is fun to create but not very useful. Possibly that's the reason it was made.
The reasoning has everything to do with confusion. This will be a de-facto leaky abstraction of an experience. Many windows programs will not work and require debugging. It isn't clear to the user that this is actually Ubuntu, so the system ultimately becomes less usable when something (inevitably) goes wrong as you are now dealing with nuances of two different systems at once.
I can only see this being useful in situations where a user has learned the 'bare minimum' of windows functionality and needs to be presented with a similar UI ('fooled') to be able to function in the OS at a basic level.
EDIT: And they offer a paid version that 500s? This is starting to read like very suspicious software...
I predict the end state of Windows is a user experience like Aqua is on Darwin for Apple.
That is, Wubuntu = Darwin.
If Redmond can't beat Torvalds, and the cost of kernel development continues to get less affordable when Office365, ActiveDirectory and Exchange are where the money is, then why bother?
Contact page has a Brazilian phone number. Expect to see this advertised as “Windows 12” on cheap laptops in back alley electronic stores across BRIC countries.
First time, the site didn't load at all. Second time, it couldn't load the CSS and everything looked like plain html. Third time, it gave me a ERRO 500.
While it looked like it'd hold up in Anglophone countries (and so Microsoft withdrew to avoid losing the trademark officially), others sided with Microsoft.
Honestly with Microsoft's Windows 11 direction I want to like this, but they took it too far. I don't miss the start menu and control panel, I just want really good WINE integration.
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Ugh, not a fan of their demo video. They showcase office compatibility by using the o365 web apps. Thats pretty deceptive imo.
> Any redistribution of modified versions of Ubuntu must be approved, certified or provided by Canonical if you are going to associate it with the Trademarks. Otherwise you must remove and replace the Trademarks and will need to recompile the source code to create your own binaries
Somehow I have a feeling that this was not approved by Canonical
I am really tempted to try this in a VM just to see how far it goes.
Call me harsh, but I think this is one of those things that is fun to create but not very useful. Possibly that's the reason it was made.
The reasoning has everything to do with confusion. This will be a de-facto leaky abstraction of an experience. Many windows programs will not work and require debugging. It isn't clear to the user that this is actually Ubuntu, so the system ultimately becomes less usable when something (inevitably) goes wrong as you are now dealing with nuances of two different systems at once.
I can only see this being useful in situations where a user has learned the 'bare minimum' of windows functionality and needs to be presented with a similar UI ('fooled') to be able to function in the OS at a basic level.
EDIT: And they offer a paid version that 500s? This is starting to read like very suspicious software...
That is, Wubuntu = Darwin.
If Redmond can't beat Torvalds, and the cost of kernel development continues to get less affordable when Office365, ActiveDirectory and Exchange are where the money is, then why bother?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYtKHnU4mQ
Noname laptop manufactures? Grandma who does not need to learn another UI? OS fanboys who need a laugh?
While it looked like it'd hold up in Anglophone countries (and so Microsoft withdrew to avoid losing the trademark officially), others sided with Microsoft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYtKHnU4mQ
And they “forked” that whole site, so extra suspicious.