I agree with you. I think that this Longhorn project is going to turn out to be a big dissapointment for Microsoft. OS's are becoming commodity items, that's why Linux and Free BSD are making inroads, that's why Apple went to a Unix (Free BSD) os. I think that Microsoft is going to lose marketshare until they realize this.
Didn't IBM try this with their Microchannel bus architecture back in '88?
Sounds like Microsoft has decided that the only way to keep their market share is to make a proprietary hardware system.
Of course everyone uses Microchannel now...
It's amazing how the same problems pop up again and again in history. This is the latest incarnation of an old story, one that destroyed civilizations it destroyed the Romans (enserfment of the citizens in the western provinces), the Byzantines (same thing, 1000 yrs later) the Spanish Empire,the French Monarchy, the Soviet Union, well you get the idea. Every time an elite aristocracy took hold and subsumed the rights of the "common people" for thier own benefit, thereby weakening the society at large until a collapse occured.
I wonder who will succed the West, hmmm!
I have been using Linux as my main or exclusive OS for about 6 years now. When the various office suites came out Linux finally reached a level of usability comperable to the Microsoft and Mac platforms. As far as user-friendliness goes, at this point most of the negative comments I get are along the lines of "Where's (YOUR FAVORITE NON-LINUX SOFTWARE)?" To which the proper rely is "This package does what you want."
The ease of use levels are about the same, most people are up and running in about 10 min. on a system that is set up and configured.
The biggest problem at this time is using legacy documents.
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I agree with you. I think that this Longhorn project is going to turn out to be a big dissapointment for Microsoft. OS's are becoming commodity items, that's why Linux and Free BSD are making inroads, that's why Apple went to a Unix (Free BSD) os. I think that Microsoft is going to lose marketshare until they realize this.
Didn't IBM try this with their Microchannel bus architecture back in '88? Sounds like Microsoft has decided that the only way to keep their market share is to make a proprietary hardware system. Of course everyone uses Microchannel now...
It's amazing how the same problems pop up again and again in history. This is the latest incarnation of an old story, one that destroyed civilizations it destroyed the Romans (enserfment of the citizens in the western provinces), the Byzantines (same thing, 1000 yrs later) the Spanish Empire,the French Monarchy, the Soviet Union, well you get the idea. Every time an elite aristocracy took hold and subsumed the rights of the "common people" for thier own benefit, thereby weakening the society at large until a collapse occured.
I wonder who will succed the West, hmmm!
I have been using Linux as my main or exclusive OS for about 6 years now. When the various office suites came out Linux finally reached a level of usability comperable to the Microsoft and Mac platforms. As far as user-friendliness goes, at this point most of the negative comments I get are along the lines of "Where's (YOUR FAVORITE NON-LINUX SOFTWARE)?" To which the proper rely is "This package does what you want."
The ease of use levels are about the same, most people are up and running in about 10 min. on a system that is set up and configured.
The biggest problem at this time is using legacy documents.