nemesis wrote:
> Warp escreveu:
>> 2) Why does Microsoft care about Linux, with its... what? Less than 1% 
>> market
>> share?
> 
> I think they are more worried about enterprise Linux server installs, 
> which go beyond that puny 1% mark.  Even if the Linux is serving a 
> primarily Windows desktop network, it doesn't bode well that such 
> desktops are not trapped to proprietary Microsoft server solutions.
> 
> It means suddenly Visual Studio developers may be targetting MySQL or 
> PostgreSQL databases rather than SQL Server, for instance.  Heck, they 
> may end up even using open-source libs rather than what's in the Windows 
> API if control is too loose over them... :P

Well, the point here is, these are documents expressing worry about 
Linux "somehow" causing Windows problems, 7 years ago, when, frankly, it 
still was a pain in the ass to do some things. Now.. If you really want 
to, you can nearly hide it under a shell that "looks and acts" like XP, 
some of its desktop stuff, like compiz (assuming I spelled that right), 
makes the "innovations" available in Vista look lame, and even the gap 
between Windows and Linux software is "currently" only held by a few 
obscure WINE bugs, which effect about the same percentage of software as 
the transition from say Win 3.1 to 95 did, and the lack of Direct3D 
support. Neither of those is going to stand long. And the recent 
notebook fiasco has pretty much brought home for everyone that Windows 
was "never" intended to run on low resources at even "close" to the same 
functionality, if at all.

MS is becoming what Big Blue was in the mainframe era. Someone so 
focused on their "existing" product, that they suddenly find that the 
rug is being pulled out from under their feet, and worse, someone moved 
anything they could grab hold of to keep from falling down. Mind, I 
don't think its going to be "quite" as bad for them, since its not 
changing an entire architecture, but they still have a huge problem.

BTW, here the one about how the EU may have finally gotten so annoyed at 
IE being integrated in MS' machines that they may require new installs 
to "include" an alternative browser "standard" in all of them? Can't 
imagine that making things better for them either...

-- 
void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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