From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11186 invoked by alias); 26 May 2012 19:01:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 11175 invoked by uid 22791); 26 May 2012 19:01:34 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TVD_FROM_1 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from anakin.london.02.net (HELO anakin.london.02.net) (87.194.255.134) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 26 May 2012 19:01:19 +0000 Received: from mail.signal100.net (78.86.165.50) by anakin.london.02.net (8.5.140) id 4EEB63D20307BC77 for cygwin-talk@cygwin.com; Sat, 26 May 2012 20:01:18 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.64] ([192.168.1.64]) by mail.signal100.net with MailEnable ESMTP; Sat, 26 May 2012 20:01:16 +0100 Message-ID: <4FC12879.2080702@signal100.com> Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 19:01:00 -0000 From: Mark Rousell Reply-To: markr-cygwin@signal100.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Subject: Re: Cygwin | Cygwin Compatibility Issue report ID 386608. References: <14E0BAF8C46B004EA0F423189D2F8EE6131D2F0B@SN2PRD0310MB396.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> <4F9A6213.2080608@tlinx.org> <4FA7A896.7020700@alcatel-lucent.com> In-Reply-To: <4FA7A896.7020700@alcatel-lucent.com> OpenPGP: id=C9C5C162; url=pool.sks-keyservers.net X-TagToolbar-Keys: D20120526200113766 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-q2/txt/msg00031.txt.bz2 On 07/05/2012 11:48, Danilo Turina wrote: > On 27/04/2012 11.08, Linda Walsh wrote: >> Anuja Singh (MP Tech Consulting LLC) wrote: >> >>> Hi Cygwin Support, >>> >>> I am a Program Manager with the Ecosystem Engineering team at Microsoft. >>> At Mobile World Congress in February, Microsoft announced the >>> availability of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Please use the >>> resources available at the Windows Development Center and begin >>> testing your applications. For more information on how to verify the >>> compatibility of your applications on Windows 8 Consumer Preview, >>> please refer to the Windows and Windows Server 8 Consumer Preview >>> Compatibility Cookbook. >>> >>> Our team drives the bug notification activity with our valued Windows >>> partners. This email is to notify you that Cygwin experienced >>> compatibility issue during internal Microsoft testing. >>> Please review the details provided below with regard to this issue. >>> >>> Compatibility Issue details:� >>> >>> Product name: Cygwin >>> >> -------------- >> >> Now that MS is dropping their posix-compat software and pointing >> people at >> cygwin, seems like they are more interested in having it work... >> imagine that... >> > You will be assimilated, resistance is futile... I look forward to the forthcoming Metro version of Cygwin! Bash in a live tile? Microsoft's strangely desperate-seeming attempts to force desktop and laptop users away from the desktop metaphor GUI to a mobile-centric UI that is wholly unsuitable for desktops and laptops (and unsuitable for local admin of servers for that matter) is bizarre. I can't think it will do the company any good. Why won't they just accept that one UI does not fit all form factors? -- MarkR PGP public key: http://www.signal100.com/markr/pgp Key ID: C9C5C162