What this means for Microsoft is that in the meantime it can go about it's business as it pleases. The US Court System is quite slow (comparatively, maybe not, but surely on an absolute scale). It just means "justice" will be delayed.
The reason I personally hated the old (united) Microsoft is its dominance of the desktop OS market with a crappy OS (95/98), and that it used this power to leverage its applications into the market... Now that each company has to compete, if they're to survive they have to write better software than their competitors... If this means they write a Linux version of Office or Outlook, I say go for it.. If the software is competitive and featureful (I LOVE Outlook), I'm all about it.. Don't go hating Microsoft just because they're Microsoft.
My apoligies about being unclear.. When I used to use Win/Dos, I'd program in BC and I remember hex editing the executables it created a few times and finding a copyright string saying "Borland C++" or something somewhere near the end of the exe it creates
As someone not familiar with mainframes, what kind of performance can you get out of each copy of Linux when you're running 41000 copies on a single mainframe? Also, do most big businesses use mainframes? I was under the (uninformed) impression that mainframes were kind of a thing of the past.
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What this means for Microsoft is that in the meantime it can go about it's business as it pleases. The US Court System is quite slow (comparatively, maybe not, but surely on an absolute scale). It just means "justice" will be delayed.
The reason I personally hated the old (united) Microsoft is its dominance of the desktop OS market with a crappy OS (95/98), and that it used this power to leverage its applications into the market... Now that each company has to compete, if they're to survive they have to write better software than their competitors... If this means they write a Linux version of Office or Outlook, I say go for it.. If the software is competitive and featureful (I LOVE Outlook), I'm all about it.. Don't go hating Microsoft just because they're Microsoft.
My apoligies about being unclear.. When I used to use Win/Dos, I'd program in BC and I remember hex editing the executables it created a few times and finding a copyright string saying "Borland C++" or something somewhere near the end of the exe it creates
Actually it does.. if you look through the source, you can find it near the end
Gosh, I just upgraded 81 million of my clients a minute ago.. A new version ALREADY!? .... Hey, when does 2.4 come out!?!?!
As someone not familiar with mainframes, what kind of performance can you get out of each copy of Linux when you're running 41000 copies on a single mainframe? Also, do most big businesses use mainframes? I was under the (uninformed) impression that mainframes were kind of a thing of the past.