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VMware: Another Netscape?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the into-the-fold dept.

An anonymous reader writes " This CRN article states that Microsoft is about to buy Connectix and enter the server consolidation market. Connectix makes virtual machines products that compete with those of VMware. Quote: 'The technology will be integrated into the Windows code, sources said.' Will Microsoft be able to pull this one off? Will their virtual machines run operating systems other than Microsoft's?"

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  1. Next question... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    Does any one want to run some other OS in a buggy OS
    such as Micorosofts?

    And therefore will it even matter?

  2. Making bad products? by Nikk+Name · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Does this mean they will be like "Netscape", making each generation of their product worse and worse until it becomes unusable?

  3. Re:makes you wonder... by zulux · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's silly. Mac users buying Virtual PC buy a copy of Windows, too.

    But Microsoft wants controll - If they can get 10,000 people to move back to Windows by killing the Mac version, they'll do it.

    They thing that iff they can maintain controll of the desktop, they can leverage it in the Server market.

    Fortunatly - Microsoft's server and other products are so horrible that people rather use Samba, Netware, FTP, hell anthing that runs, just to stay away from Windows as a server.

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  4. no big deal by Enrico+Pulatzo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Microsoft is only looking for more ways to slow Windows down so you'll need faster computers.

  5. Its so obvious by alexborges · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Remeber how they bought the remote access company, then integrated that in the window management apps, and now its illegal to run vnc in winxp?

    Well... now theyll make it illegal to run vmWare for windows or just about anything but their emu, on the side theyll kill whatever good patches the vmware ppl send to linux (i dont know how they contribute, but i imagine they have a kernel hacker or two).

    And there is fair competition in the minds @ redmond.... and there is bush playing pat on the back with his girlfriends bill and balmer. Talk about the worst of the worst in big corporate orgies.

    And here we are trying to make a buck out of what this fuckers leave us.

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  6. Re:Can you say Pallad... by JBird · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    If the VM ties in with the hardware TCPA, then the material is protected. Microsoft can cheaply sell (or give away) the software without getting sued for irresponsibility.

    You make is sound like poor Microsoft is being forced to implement TCPA (and Palladium). I would not call Microsoft irresponsible if they did not implement TCPA.