If past performance is anything to go by M$ can leverage their control over Office dependent consumers to influence the direction of development of linux. It is not inconceivable that they could release versions that work with certain features that are present in for example, kde but not gnome or some other variant. What is at the moment a reasonable free competitive arena for software apps could be severly distorted.
Of course maybe us amateur strategists have got it wrong and M$ just want to offer *nix users an opportunity they have been _desperately_ waiting for...or maybe not...
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Yeah, but it also says that he has written a book on Operating Systems so he *should* have known some of this stuff.
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If past performance is anything to go by M$ can leverage their control over Office dependent consumers to influence the direction of development of linux. It is not inconceivable that they could release versions that work with certain features that are present in for example, kde but not gnome or some other variant. What is at the moment a reasonable free competitive arena for software apps could be severly distorted.
Of course maybe us amateur strategists have got it wrong and M$ just want to offer *nix users an opportunity they have been _desperately_ waiting for...or maybe not...