Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Jan 2009 10:27 UTC
Every now and then, some blogger working for a big website will write a story about how company Abc should make radical move Xyz in order to better, eh, well, that's usually left in the dark. These are generally more akin to said bloggers hoping for radical move Xyz rather than there being a well-argumented reasoning. Radical moves in the technology business don't happen very often, but when they do, there's generally a good reason for them.
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I have always thought that the best competitor to Windows, bearing in mind that people need compatibility in this world, would be a well-funded ReactOS project (maybe one of Microsoft's competitors could step in to provide finance...) If there was a viable F/OSS implementation of Windows and, importantly, that implementation was not controlled by MS then we might see it improve in ways that could not have been imagined before (in the same vein as the recent Mono on iPhone and Wii story).
I am also unsure as to why MS would wish to liberate Windows at the moment as there isn't really any market pressure to do so. However, this could be a good thing, because as long as Windows isn't open, there remains the opportunity for ReactOS to get its foot in the door (if someone would give the project the resources it needs to truly compete).