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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."
... the company thinks, a single program should handle it all.
Another innovation from MS, their going to recreat Emacs.
Look a monkey!
The full verse...
Three OS's for CEO-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Business lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for competing products doomed to die,
One for Microsoft on its dark throne.
In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie.
One OS to rule them all, One Passport to find them,
One OS to bring them in and in the EULA bind them
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.