One of the most important aspects of an OS that is used by users is the User Interface. This should be obvious. In this respect, BeOS (although still extremely young) is growing in popularity if only due to the fact that it looks gorgeous. It's not hard to impress onlookers when you are playing 10 mp3s and at the same time full-motion video flawlessly. It's harder to do the same for Linux (open flame invitation) when what you want to show off is a stable, multi-user server OS.
Another way of looking at it: If BeOS were a woman, it would be Rebecca Romijn. If Linux were a woman, it would be your wife. If Windows were a woman, it would be serving time.
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AFAIK ASP.NET is written almost completely in managed code (except for the ISAPI hooks of course)
...for them to submit this to the press and soak up the free publicity and subconscious geek cred?
Nothing.
So I give them their points for better marketing - even if the sentiment stops at the "pondering" stage.
Scoop is still up and available...
Great movie, just saw it last night. Refreshing to see a truly scary movie with no cheesy ending.
One of the most important aspects of an OS that is used by users is the User Interface. This should be obvious. In this respect, BeOS (although still extremely young) is growing in popularity if only due to the fact that it looks gorgeous. It's not hard to impress onlookers when you are playing 10 mp3s and at the same time full-motion video flawlessly. It's harder to do the same for Linux (open flame invitation) when what you want to show off is a stable, multi-user server OS.
Another way of looking at it:
If BeOS were a woman, it would be Rebecca Romijn.
If Linux were a woman, it would be your wife.
If Windows were a woman, it would be serving time.