Chances are that Microsoft is going to license the Antivirus technology from some little company that signed a big contract. Much of the tack-on technology in Windows XP wasn't created by Microsoft, but licensed from small companies. The zip functionality came from the makers of Winzip. The disk defragmenter came from Executive Software (makers of Diskeeper).
As I recall, people were declaring the death of Zone Alarm and Black Ice when it was heard that XP would contain a firewall. I remember the predictions of Symantec's doom because Windows 95 had a disk defragmenter (3.1 and NT did not). The deaths of MusicMatch and REAL were all too.. er... real, when Media Player was to be included.
These companies will either adapt, dissapear, license technology to MS, or create a product that is so much better than the included software that people will be willing to shell-out $$$ to make their OS better.
I don't see Microsoft going out of business because Wordpad is included in Windows. Clearly, a direct competitor to Word and Works! Okay.. bad example.. but you get my point.
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Bumping the RAM from 512MB to 1GB eliminated all the lag when flying into Iron Forge and visiting the auction house. I highly recommend more RAM.
Seems to me Microsoft has a very successful business model. How can you say they are lagging behind?
Hey, their FTP server software is out of date: Domain Dossier
Wow, if only the media would use Google to do their polls. I never thought to use Google as an insta-poll:
"George Bush Rocks" -> 65
"George Bush Sucks" -> 3,250
"John Kerry Rocks" -> 99
"John Kerry Sucks" -> 70
"Bill Clinton is faithful" -> 2
Draw your own conclusions.
Chances are that Microsoft is going to license the Antivirus technology from some little company that signed a big contract. Much of the tack-on technology in Windows XP wasn't created by Microsoft, but licensed from small companies. The zip functionality came from the makers of Winzip. The disk defragmenter came from Executive Software (makers of Diskeeper).
As I recall, people were declaring the death of Zone Alarm and Black Ice when it was heard that XP would contain a firewall. I remember the predictions of Symantec's doom because Windows 95 had a disk defragmenter (3.1 and NT did not). The deaths of MusicMatch and REAL were all too.. er... real, when Media Player was to be included.
These companies will either adapt, dissapear, license technology to MS, or create a product that is so much better than the included software that people will be willing to shell-out $$$ to make their OS better.
I don't see Microsoft going out of business because Wordpad is included in Windows. Clearly, a direct competitor to Word and Works! Okay.. bad example.. but you get my point.
I used to have a toaster that would automatically start cooking when bread was dropped-in. =-=-=-=- Tag lines are a waste of space -=-=-=-=
Outfit your Tivo with the AirNET card. Your Tivo will get the updates when the vehicle is parked in your garage via wifi.