Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 8th Dec 2006 00:24 UTC
The holiday season hasn't gone exactly as Microsoft had hoped and Ballmer sits down with CNET News.com to discuss life after Vista, battling the iPod, and the rising importance of mobile devices.
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RE[3]: The Beginning of Software as a Service
by twenex on Fri 8th Dec 2006 12:31
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RE[4]: The Beginning of Software as a Service
by PlatformAgnostic on Fri 8th Dec 2006 19:35
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I'm thinking that open-sourcing NT is a non-starter within Microsoft. Moving to Linux would be pretty unnecessary since the NT kernel already does pretty much everything linux does, albeit maybe not as quickly due to its additional abstraction layers to support binary drivers.
The Windows kernel is actually very clean and well-designed. Things get hairy when you move into user-mode.
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They'd open-source NT before moving to linux. It's pretty much a non-starter anyway.
About apple: does anyone outside of apple actually work on Darwin? I'm pretty sure that apple does all or nearly all of the work there. And actually writing the code is not really the hard part. More effort in these low-level systems seems to go into testing and reviewing.