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Microsoft's Longhorn Faces Antitrust Scrutiny

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fine-toothed-comb dept.

benore writes "The Department of Justice will be reviewing Microsoft's Longhorn product as part of the company's antitrust settlement. One analyst opines that Mircosoft is appearing to soften its image to become kinder and gentler. 'They don't want people to hate them anymore. They've learned from their mistakes.' Hmmm."

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  1. One or t'other... by Randy+Wang · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, now, instead of hating them for being the monopolistic, evil, brutish and cruel giant that we all like to think of them, they want us to praise them for their strides forward in the fields of Digital Rights Management, ever-retreating deadlines and anti-crapware stance.

    I, for one, welcome our new (helpful) overlords...

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    1. Re:One or t'other... by lxs · · Score: 3, Funny

      Ever retreating deadlnes is a bad thing?

      Some people are never content. For years everyone has been critisizing for not being more like Free Software vendors.

      With Longhorn, Microsoft has obviously adopted the Debian release schedule.

      Go MS!

  2. Angst by cybathug · · Score: 3, Funny

    "They don't want people to hate them anymore"
    Remember, it's down the road, not across the street. Make it count.

  3. Mircosoft ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh great, there is another monopoly called Mircosoft?

    One monopoly, we could handle... but this is just ridiculous...

    1. Re:Mircosoft ? by mirko · · Score: 2, Funny

      I am not a monopoly !

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  4. longHORN ^^ by jamesbuko · · Score: 2, Funny

    strenghtens the fact that Microsoft is the devil!!

  5. Texas Longhorn Recipe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    As a Texan I'd like to catch and rope that Longhorn, kill it and roast it slow over a nice camp fire while discussing the latest Linux and BSD news with my friends.

  6. Shedding a Name, Shedding Hatred? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    One analyst opines that Mircosoft is appearing to soften its image to become kinder and gentler. 'They don't want people to hate them anymore.'

    Does that include changing their name to Mircosoft?

  7. Yahoo has a sense of humor by ICECommander · · Score: 2, Funny

    Longhorn is scheduled for release in 2006.
    Cracks me up every time.

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