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First time Microsoft 'acknowledged' wine (2005)
- croes 6y agoPost is from 2005
- metalliqaz 6y agoI read until "activex control" then stopped and wondered why this is on the front page now.
- vxNsr 6y agoSame, then I looked at the date it was posted and was even more confused
- jackewiehose 6y agoArgh - I kept on reading because I didn't get the memo that activex isn't a thing anymore... HN should have a mandatory date-field for submissions. Not the first time I fell for that.
- zamalek 6y agoi.e. the Balmer era, who has repeated his hatred for Linux at every possible opportunity. That was the first time Balmer acknowledged Wine. Nadella runs Microsoft now. This post is FUD.
- eyelidlessness 6y ago> This post is FUD Or, this post is interesting for those of us curious about it and doesn’t yet have (2005) in the edited title.
- weare138 6y agoI've been using wine since the 90's and never read this before. I thought it was interesting.
- vxNsr 6y agoActually Gates still ran the shop in 2005.
- zamalek 6y agoBalmer was promoted to CEO January 13 2000[1]. [1]: https://www.cnn.com/2013/04/08/us/steve-ballmer-fast-facts/ https://www.cnn.com/2013/04/08/us/steve-ballmer-fast-facts/
- dvfjsdhgfv 6y ago> This post is FUD. Since this is HN, we better be careful about terminology. FUD is a term coined to describe the tactics used by Microsoft aimed at discrediting their competition. This post is not FUD but a description of an event that took place 16 years ago.
- EE84M3i 6y agoThe only "acknowledgement" is checking for the registry key "SOFTWARE\Wine\Wine\Config"
- weare138 6y agoBut it implies MS specifically targeted wine by looking for a registry key unique to wine.
- shmerl 6y agoPost from 2005. That said, MS did pull a few things from their download centers recently, which broke a few winetricks rules.
- SEJeff 6y agomods / dang, please put 2005 in the title, or better set this post to dead as it is borderline trolling without 2005 in the title.
- xref 6y agoThey should have put a trigger warning in there for mentioning Windows Genuine Advantage. Can’t count how many times I had to tell customers to call MS to be issued a new Product Key because WGA decided to blacklist theirs for whatever reason, having the temerity to reinstall the OS etc...