No Linux for Online Job Testing

[Leo Mauler]

VMWare was not a solution because I'd still have to
run out and buy a copy of Windows XP to run on top of
Linux in VMWare.  More likely these days I'd have to
buy Vista instead, and then there's the learning curve
of figuring out how to install and use Vista on top of
taking the test.

WINE might have been a solution except that I was
dealing with some sort of proprietary Windows
solution.  Usually with WINE you have some sort of
indication from the WINE folks or from message boards
whether or not a given application will run in WINE
(IE, Microsoft Office, Morrowind, etc.) and that
wasn't the case.

--- Joe Brouhard <jbrouhard at gmail.com> wrote:

> When all else fails.. WINE or VMWare is your 
> friend for such instances :)
> 
> On 9/5/07, Leo Mauler <webgiant at yahoo.com> wrote:

> > Then it turns out that the testing website, 
> > for some reason, uses some sort of proprietary 
> > Windows web software to do all its testing.  
> > IE isn't the problem because FireFox on Windows 
> > is supported.  Since I went all-Linux a few 
> > months ago, I didn't have any way to take the 
> > test myself on any of my own computers.  I 
> > finally had to convince my wife to stop playing
> > Morrowind for an hour (not an easy task) so I
> > could use her Windows PC.
> >
> > I suppose the thing I find irritating about 
> > this is that industry leaders (excepting 
> > Microsoft, of course) use platform independent 
> > testing software.  Cisco in particular used 
> > testing software on its Academy website which
> > worked great for me in Firefox on Debian Linux.
> > Is it really that much more cost-effective
> > to use Windows-dependent testing software on 
> > a website?


       
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