Absolutely, an astute observation, the need to further remove these legacy systems from the crosshairs of userland developers and from use in the low system requirements usership is a very real motivation. I think there are benefits in retrospective business reparations and in future development for MS through this collaboration. Obviously they will benefit from further discontinuation of 98/ME systems freeing up resources used to continue patching etc of the systems. Also, as mentioned, the fact that mozilla family products will now support live platforms means that ms is back in the game for web standards,.NET re-inforcement and MS defined client side functionality gaining ubiquitous support across platforms, it's a keen manouver for further influencial power in the www technology market.
my final words, active-x on linux? ongaurd AV systems!
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Absolutely, an astute observation, the need to further remove these legacy systems from the crosshairs of userland developers and from use in the low system requirements usership is a very real motivation. I think there are benefits in retrospective business reparations and in future development for MS through this collaboration. Obviously they will benefit from further discontinuation of 98/ME systems freeing up resources used to continue patching etc of the systems. Also, as mentioned, the fact that mozilla family products will now support live platforms means that ms is back in the game for web standards, .NET re-inforcement and MS defined client side functionality gaining ubiquitous support across platforms, it's a keen manouver for further influencial power in the www technology market.
my final words, active-x on linux? ongaurd AV systems!