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VMware-Microsoft Battle Looming
An anonymous reader writes "VMWare released a white paper detailing its concerns with license changes on Microsoft software that may limit the ability to move virtual-machine software around data centers to automate the management of computing work. Two choice quotes: '"Microsoft is looking for any way it can to gain the upper hand," said Diane Greene, the president of VMware.' And, '"This seems to be a far more subtle, informed and polished form of competitive aggression than we've seen from Microsoft in the past," said Andrew I. Gavil, a law professor at Howard University. "And Microsoft has no obligation to facilitate a competitor."'"
...Microsoft is using dirty strategies to fight a competitor. Films at 11.
I wonder if he has judicial ambitions.
"but just once I'd like to see them actually create something original"
I think your out of line here...there is allot going on in Redmon that must be a "first"...just check these fine examples, no prior art here (no "post art" either)!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clippy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_bob
http://www.intellipool.se/ - Intellipool Network Monitor
Hey Slashdot, why are PC users such ugly dweebs in comparison to Mac users? Is it because nobody has the time or patience to put up with Windows/Linux except for friendless, sexless nerds like you?
Microsoft got bigger, Windows got more complicated with already so many features, one customer became less important as they got bigger, and no doubt that more than one customer asked for something stupid or impossible.