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Is Onlive Pirating Windows and Will It Cost Them?
An anonymous reader writes "When Onlive, the network gaming company, started offering not just Microsoft Windows but Microsoft Office for free on the iPad, and now on Android, it certainly seemed too good to be true. Speculation abounded on what type of license they could be using to accomplish this magical feat. From sifting through Microsoft's licenses and speaking with sources very familiar with them, the ugly truth may be that they can't."
Seriously with Ubuntu Linux finally showing some decent polish and usability (yes yes I am referring to Unity which I have gotten used to) and OSX also available who really shives a git about Microsoft?
Let them drown in their cesspool! The problem of Microsoft is simple, they have tons of 20 year veterans in the middle tier running the show. These people believe that if we copy or provide similar features all will be ok on the USS Microsoft. What they don't realized is that they are fucked! With Windows 8 people will realize how dead this ship is. Sure Microsoft will still sell lots and lots of licenses to existing customers (can't underestimate their ability to squezze profits), but it is the next generation that will not pull along.
As somebody who used my last Windows operating system with Windows 7 I can say Microsoft is truly fucked! And I have been using Windows since 3.0 back in 1990!
"You can't make a race horse of a pig"
"No," said Samuel, "but you can make very fast pig"