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Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the giddyap dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Everything I have read concering MS's future plans: Palladium, Client/Server tie in, Office 11 breaking backward compatability, 3 year licensing plans, product activation - all leave me with a foreboding sense of the potential synergy for furthering Microsoft's goals of complete domination. Now this article tells about Longhorn's new filesystem being based on the the future Yukon server. And surprise it will only work with new hardware, which they want to be Palladium enabled. And all pitched to you under the rubric of Security & Efficency. For years MS has been accused of only wanting people to run MS Software. Now according to the article, 'Microsoft doesn't think computer users should have to use one program to read and write a word-processing file, another to use a spreadsheet, and a third to correspond via e-mail. Rather, the company thinks, a single program should handle it all.' One program to rule them all, one program to bind them, indeed."

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  1. SO CLOSE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but no fp. pretty damn close though.

  2. i found the new slashdot mascot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    check it out here (not a goatse link)

  3. Your link is broken? by MacAndrew · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I didn't even know an URL could be so long.

    You might enjoy www.learnhowtouseanapostropheyoucandoit.org (theres, it's) ... must get coffee ...

  4. Re:All anti-MS, all the time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Still, I find it hard to believe that your personal preference and/or your inability to use a very basic piece of software has anything to do at all with the overall quality of a company's products.

    When all else fails, insult your opponent. Hell, why not just come right out and call him a "doody-head"?

    Who is childish now?