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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. Interesting tactics... by Cynical_Dude · · Score: 2, Informative

    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."

    Yes, renaming the company is a good, first step.

    Dunno if that croatian naming touch will get them very far though...

    Probably don't want to have to rebuy all their corporate "M$" branded coffee mugs, calendars and Mercedes-Benz's...

  2. Re:They don't want people to hate them anymore? by zootm · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is gonna sound pedantic, but the name "Antitrust" is derived from monopolistic business cartels at the time that the legislation was written, which were then called "trusts".

  3. Re:Too late, Bill by Taladar · · Score: 3, Informative

    The reason you almost never get 0 results with "netstat -a" in Linux is that it lists Unix Sockets in addition to Network (TCP&UPD) Sockets which are used by X11, your systemlogger and other programs but are strictly local.

    --
    Linux is not Windows
  4. Re:One or t'other... by agraupe · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nope... if it works on one Linux distro, linux does support the hardware. If there is one area linux needs to work on, it is hardware detection. I'm sure it will work perfectly on every other distro, if you set it up (a manual kernel compile, no doubt).

  5. Re:Too late, Bill by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    I get zero results on this linux box save my Xserver which is deliberate.

    Even that listening port can be turned off with startx -- -nolisten tcp