Why didn't some Microserfs leave the company, take their inside knowledge, and build a "Microsoft Linux"? Such a product, with great support for WINE and Mono and so on would have opened up all sorts of paths for true innovation?
OK, so M$ finally scored with Xbox, but the largest game platform these days is Apple's iOS, see ya later. They finally won a war only to learn they conquered a small planet. As for another old tech, M$ has been killed in the renewed Browser Wars with the ascent of Chrome. The ubiquity of apps that require IE inside of corporations can only last so long and then M$ will fade from the browser market. Micro$oft has turned into "that stuff I use at work" while people are computing everywhere else with everything else BUT Windoze. See ya in the history books.
Why the heck not? MS Office sales are down, the Microsoft OS's have become stagnant. Innovation is practically non-existent unless you count security patches as "innovations". BillyGates should step out on the lawn in Redmond with his first distro CD and begin the "embrace and extend" of Linux. Redmond could spend the next five years Microsofting existing *nix-compatible apps while touting them as wonderful innovations. The dev teams could catch up on their skiing. (Blackcomb is great this time of year, they say.)
Who is going to stop Microsoft Linux? Torvalds? Oh, please. The DOJ? Right!
"Linus, join me and together we can rule the Galaxy as Father and Son. You don't know the power of the Dark Side"
It's probably only a matter of time before Ballmer finally grasps the true benefits of Open Source.-formerly known inside Redmond as "Open Sores".
Yes! I have arrived! It is I, MicrosoftLinux. Why not?
Why couldn't Microsoft adopt open source...ALL THE FREAKIN' WAY??? Keep draggin' the WindowsNT kernel along for their legacy customers for another, oh, 20 years, but start the shift to MicrosoftLinux.
With MicrosoftLinux, the source would be opened up, the look and feel would be just like "you know what", it could be easily ported to a zillion different platforms and uses, and PHB's would buy it because they could call Redmond for tech support. Besides, once the MS lawyers got truly loose on the GNU GPL, we would soon see MicrosoftLinux as one more "embrace and extend".
Additionally, consumers would buy it for the Windows look and feel because MS could lift all that Windows GUI-related source code and cruft it onto a Linux kernel. Hell, maybe right-clicking would stop being an adventure in "now you see it, now you don't", unlike my prior experiences with KDE. That would sell a lot of MicrosoftLinux.
For now, we will continue to monitor the Linux community and pooh-pooh it in the press. MicrosoftLinux is coming. Be afraid, be very afraid...
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Why didn't some Microserfs leave the company, take their inside knowledge, and build a "Microsoft Linux"? Such a product, with great support for WINE and Mono and so on would have opened up all sorts of paths for true innovation?
OK, so M$ finally scored with Xbox, but the largest game platform these days is Apple's iOS, see ya later. They finally won a war only to learn they conquered a small planet. As for another old tech, M$ has been killed in the renewed Browser Wars with the ascent of Chrome. The ubiquity of apps that require IE inside of corporations can only last so long and then M$ will fade from the browser market. Micro$oft has turned into "that stuff I use at work" while people are computing everywhere else with everything else BUT Windoze. See ya in the history books.
Why the heck not? MS Office sales are down, the Microsoft OS's have become stagnant. Innovation is practically non-existent unless you count security patches as "innovations". BillyGates should step out on the lawn in Redmond with his first distro CD and begin the "embrace and extend" of Linux. Redmond could spend the next five years Microsofting existing *nix-compatible apps while touting them as wonderful innovations. The dev teams could catch up on their skiing. (Blackcomb is great this time of year, they say.)
Who is going to stop Microsoft Linux? Torvalds? Oh, please. The DOJ? Right!
"Linus, join me and together we can rule the Galaxy as Father and Son. You don't know the power of the Dark Side "
You need to check out the facts on that head-to-head comparison of NTie and OS/2. Here is the link: http://www.microsith.com/jedix-myths.php3
It's probably only a matter of time before Ballmer finally grasps the true benefits of Open Source.-formerly known inside Redmond as "Open Sores".
Yes! I have arrived! It is I, MicrosoftLinux. Why not?
Why couldn't Microsoft adopt open source...ALL THE FREAKIN' WAY??? Keep draggin' the WindowsNT kernel along for their legacy customers for another, oh, 20 years, but start the shift to MicrosoftLinux.
With MicrosoftLinux, the source would be opened up, the look and feel would be just like "you know what", it could be easily ported to a zillion different platforms and uses, and PHB's would buy it because they could call Redmond for tech support. Besides, once the MS lawyers got truly loose on the GNU GPL, we would soon see MicrosoftLinux as one more "embrace and extend".
Additionally, consumers would buy it for the Windows look and feel because MS could lift all that Windows GUI-related source code and cruft it onto a Linux kernel. Hell, maybe right-clicking would stop being an adventure in "now you see it, now you don't", unlike my prior experiences with KDE. That would sell a lot of MicrosoftLinux.
For now, we will continue to monitor the Linux community and pooh-pooh it in the press. MicrosoftLinux is coming. Be afraid, be very afraid...