Operating systems irrelevant? Of course they should be and to a great extent are becoming more so all the time. The point is that, as the recent MS/DOJ settlement demonstrates, any company wanting to compete in the software applications market now, more than ever, has to have an operating system. The operating system is part of the product, rather than vice-versa, as MS would have it. MS will now be able to far more rigorously exclude non-MS apps from their Windows world. Oh well. All aboard the Star Office!
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Operating systems irrelevant? Of course they should be and to a great extent are becoming more so all the time. The point is that, as the recent MS/DOJ settlement demonstrates, any company wanting to compete in the software applications market now, more than ever, has to have an operating system. The operating system is part of the product, rather than vice-versa, as MS would have it. MS will now be able to far more rigorously exclude non-MS apps from their Windows world. Oh well. All aboard the Star Office!