Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Jan 2009 10:27 UTC
Windows 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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by ichi on Wed 14th Jan 2009 12:05 UTC
ichi
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2007-03-06

Open sourcing Windows could solve a lot of problems, but probably none of Microsoft's.

If anything that would likely break what as of now is the main pillar of their hegemony: lock-in.