I personally hope that Microsoft is forced to release control of the API for their current and future OSs to, say, a panel of leading OS developers, (say Sun, HP, Apple, MS, Be, IBM, and maybe a representative from the FSF/Linux Development team). This would prevent MS from changing the API just to keep other OSs from gaining control, and would guarantee any app written for the new API would be able to run on any OS that supports it (making the API public domain would guarantee the wide availablity of OSs that do). This would take away MS's real source of power, the application base.
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I personally hope that Microsoft is forced to release control of the API for their current and future OSs to, say, a panel of leading OS developers, (say Sun, HP, Apple, MS, Be, IBM, and maybe a representative from the FSF/Linux Development team). This would prevent MS from changing the API just to keep other OSs from gaining control, and would guarantee any app written for the new API would be able to run on any OS that supports it (making the API public domain would guarantee the wide availablity of OSs that do). This would take away MS's real source of power, the application base.