http://gizbuzz.co.uk/2006/google-to-preinstall-software-on-dell-pcs/ Technology, Computers, Web 2.0, Google, Microsoft, and just about anything else Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:04:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://gizbuzz.co.uk/2006/google-to-preinstall-software-on-dell-pcs/#comment-53 Gizbuzz » Google release Picasa for Linux Sat, 27 May 2006 10:30:41 +0000 http://gizbuzz.co.uk/?p=192#comment-53 [...] They haven’t completely rewritten Picasa for Linux, but have tweaked it to make it work with Wine. Wine is a piece of software that allows you to run simple and older Windows applications quite well under Linux (it works with Paint Shop Pro 4, for example). Does this mean that Google are becoming more and more distant from Microsoft by supporting platforms other than Windows? Recently, we have seen quite a rift appear between Google and Microsoft; over the IE/MSN Search issue and also I doubt Microsoft are happy about the Google/Dell bundling now going on. [...] [...] They haven’t completely rewritten Picasa for Linux, but have tweaked it to make it work with Wine. Wine is a piece of software that allows you to run simple and older Windows applications quite well under Linux (it works with Paint Shop Pro 4, for example). Does this mean that Google are becoming more and more distant from Microsoft by supporting platforms other than Windows? Recently, we have seen quite a rift appear between Google and Microsoft; over the IE/MSN Search issue and also I doubt Microsoft are happy about the Google/Dell bundling now going on. [...]

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