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."'"

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uh, news...

[cosmocain]

...Microsoft is using dirty strategies to fight a competitor. Films at 11.

Quasinominative Determinism

[ettlz]

Andrew I. Gavil, a law professor

I wonder if he has judicial ambitions.

Re:It's Microsoft being themselves

[BuR4N]

"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