Microsoft At Middle Age

gordyf writes "The Seattle Times has an interesting article concerning Microsoft's current position in the market. It describes how its customers and parners are reacting to its heavy-handed tactics, and how 'you can point to Linux being one of the major drivers for this decade.' An interesting read."

Comments

Mac OS X?

[kakos]

I tend to see Mac OS X being more of a driver than Linux in the future. Mac OS X is a single OS, as opposed to a set of OSes that may or may not work together. Also, OS X also has the backing of a long established company that will probably be around in the foreseeable future. OS X is also a BSD, which is a much better OS than Linux. Lastly, Apple is adopting a less proprietary model and much of the operating system is open source, so many of the benefits of a completely open source OS are there too.

Re:Yep

[chef_raekwon]

good call all around ---

try running your RedHat 8.0 on a 486, or better yet, an early Pentium 1 (with KDE or GNOME). Please post results.