{"id":1349,"date":"2010-04-01T10:41:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T08:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2010-04-01T11:18:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T09:18:11","slug":"new-partnership-with-mattel-and-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"New partnership with Mattel and Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/tmp\/blog\/barbie-edition.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/tmp\/blog\/thumb_barbie-edition.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are happy to announce that Linux Mint entered in a joined partnership with Mattel and Microsoft. This partnership will result in Linux Mint being pre-installed\u00a0 on a new range of computers sold throughout the World and in a number of toys and games distributors.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership will introduce the following changes for our distribution:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All included components will be based on Mono. Technologies not using Mono will be rewritten or replaced by Mono alternatives.<\/li>\n<li>All present editions will be discontinued. New editions will replace them, namely a &#8220;Masters of the Universe Edition&#8221; for boys, a &#8220;Barbie Edition&#8221; for girls, and a generic &#8220;Microsoft Professional Edition&#8221; for small to medium companies.<\/li>\n<li>The default browser will be replaced by an emulation of Internet Explorer.<\/li>\n<li>All editions will come without an office suite but with full compatibility with Microsoft Office.<\/li>\n<li>Linux Mint won&#8217;t be available for download anymore, only through the purchase of one of these computers.<\/li>\n<li>The system will protect users against central software sources, such as the getdeb website, APT repositories and the download of .deb formatted files.<\/li>\n<li>APT and the .deb compatibility will be replaced with a new software manager including the latest offers from Microsoft. Users will be able to pay online for DLC without having to go to the shop to buy their favorite software.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On behalf of the team, I would like to say that I&#8217;m very excited about this. I have no doubt the community will be overjoyed by the news and I can&#8217;t wait for you all to finally see Linux Mint near you, in a retail store.<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230; wait, it&#8217;s not going to be called Linux Mint anymore. It&#8217;s going to be called&#8230;. &#8220;April Foo OS&#8221; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to announce that Linux Mint entered in a joined partnership with Mattel and Microsoft. This partnership will result in Linux Mint being pre-installed\u00a0 on a new range of computers sold throughout the World and in a number of toys and games distributors. The partnership will introduce the following changes for our distribution: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}