Microsoft in 2008

r.jimenezz writes "Over at Wired there's an entertaining article written by Gary Wolf. It purports to be a memo written by a 2008-Microsoft-employed Linus Torvalds to Bill, arguing against Steve Ballmer's desire to go back to the untenable OS monopoly proposition instead of the 'new order': Windows is now some sort of desktop environment on top of an open OS!"

Comments

Old News for Nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

This was posted all over the internet days ago... Thanks again slashdot for proving your irrelevance!

Go back to coding!

[flibuste]

Nice piece of useless writing. Thinking that people actually spend time writing those things. I wonder what silicon they smoke

Thats great...

[Devalia]

....but can they tell me next weeks lottery numbers?

Hack Writing

[TempusMagus]

That article was bad. I don't want to be unusally cruel - but 10th graders are above using such a narrative advice. I think the author hamfistedly confused improbablity with insight.

Memo to Wired

[digitalgimpus]

Dear Wired,

Isaac Asimov was the king of Science Fiction. Your attempt at the genre is pretty much just frightening and strange despite being somewhat comical.

Please go back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Regards,
Slashdot Community.

Gah

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsofts desktop environment is the cruft that makes it "bad".

Microsofts Kernel is smaller, does not need a recompile for hardware updates (*snigger*), handles threading and memory management better and with alot more features then "Teh legendary linux kernel". Frankly, Linux (the man and the kernel) doesn't have anything Microsoft needs.

They (ms) just need to get their shit together and get their engineering standards homogenous across all departments. The wads who produce garbage like clippy and "let the intern do it with string.h" arn't the same guys who make the kernel.

Re:I read this and found it to be terribly funny

[Winkhorst]

If you say so.... And there are still people who don't believe in alternate realities!