There is running joke between me and my kids where I will claim to own, or to be first, or to be intimately involved in things that I can't possible even know about. Bear with me when I say that Microsoft employs this as a philosophy of life. When I overview MS PR and marketing messenging over these past 6-8 months, it is amazing the number of times I have seen the literal or implied: MS = Zenix = we invented *nix. As stated by another/.er, MS is a moving target and often uses short-term projects to build initiative teams. They also use them to divert attention from new initiative: best place to hide is in plain sight. Doom theorist that I am, if I didn't know better(?), I would say that it appears that MS is repositioning to claim control of *nix. At your conferences and working tables over the next 8 months, count how many times a project manager says: 'you know, MS began as a *nix company...'
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There is running joke between me and my kids where I will claim to own, or to be first, or to be intimately involved in things that I can't possible even know about. Bear with me when I say that Microsoft employs this as a philosophy of life. When I overview MS PR and marketing messenging over these past 6-8 months, it is amazing the number of times I have seen the literal or implied: MS = Zenix = we invented *nix. As stated by another /.er, MS is a moving target and often uses short-term projects to build initiative teams. They also use them to divert attention from new initiative: best place to hide is in plain sight. Doom theorist that I am, if I didn't know better(?), I would say that it appears that MS is repositioning to claim control of *nix. At your conferences and working tables over the next 8 months, count how many times a project manager says: 'you know, MS began as a *nix company...'