Linked by Joshua Boyles on Wed 19th May 2004 20:08 UTC
By the time Longhorn comes out I'm sure everyone will be sick of the subject "windows vs linux." Will longhorn finally destroy that pesky linux and mark another decade of Microsoft's monopoly, or will the underdog come out with a stunning upset and send a multi billion dollar company to it's grave?
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Micro$oft is seeing its end days as a software company.
You really have a weak grasp of reality. They are too powerful to disapear so quickly in the face of what boils down to the Linux hype machine.
They know this, which is why they are branching out into new markets like games and hardware.
Again, wow you're delusional. They have always tried to branch out when they could or felt the need, and Linux has absolutely nothing to do with this. Big companies don't stay big by standing still.
Linux is moving forward very quicky. I don't expect it will completey take over the Desktop market, but I bet it will put a huge dent in it.
In some areas, Linux is indeed moving fast. In others, it will forever lag behind. Patents, the divisive development ideologies, and stubbourn leaders who refuse to simple things like use kernel debuggers to help with the quality control process. Granted, in poorer countries, or those that are only now begining to rise to power, open source software will likely seep into all aspects of computing life, because of the general distrust of Americans, and American businesses, but in North America it'll be a while before there is any worthwhile dent in the desktop market.
Moreover, Legislation is being drafted right now to protect free software.
It's a sad state of affairs, but companies like Microsoft own quite a few more politicians than the free software and open source movements can currently muster. Don't forget that IBM is only in it for the money, and they'd leave you all out in the cold in an instant if it really suited their purposes.
At his point, any move that MS makes against Linux will be seen another reason to get away from the Monopoly.
Business is business, and every one of them takes steps to attack the competition, monopoly or not. I don't like Microsoft any more than many people here, but you know what they say, survival of the fittest. I'm sure that both proprietary and open software will both be around for a very long time to come, with niether gaining more than a mere temporary advantage over the other.