[url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23729366/[/url]
For a company that controls and corrupts the world's media (claims of
various cola lusers), MS sure has a hard time keeping their own joint
venture website quiet about Linux and open source.
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[url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23729366/[/url]
For a company that controls and corrupts the world's media (claims of
various cola lusers), MS sure has a hard time keeping their own joint
venture website quiet about Linux and open source.
"DFS" <nospam@dfs_.com> wrote in message
news:e%LIj.16164$%15.14399@bignews7.bellsouth.net...[color=blue]
> [url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23729366/[/url]
>
> For a company that controls and corrupts the world's media (claims of
> various cola lusers), MS sure has a hard time keeping their own joint
> venture website quiet about Linux and open source.
>[/color]
Obviously Microsoft is not the monolith that the COLA fans like to consider
it to be. Nothing is simple anymore and that applies to business. In spite
of the tales of things like the Christmas Beta and "DOS is not done until
Lotus won't run", Microsoft, at least at its core, recognizes that Windows,
like DOS before it, needs to be a one stop shopping product that customers
can immediately put to beneficial use without an external dependency. The
more things that work with Windows and thus the more utility that customers
obtain from using Windows as a platform, the better for Microsoft. I note
that virtually all OSS applications have Windows versions and many are only
available as Windows programs. Microsoft fosters this kind of thing in many
ways, not the least of which is the opening of Visual Studio to almost
anyone with an urge to program or create a web site. The game development
tool support is terrific, too.
In regard to browsers, remember that one of the war stories in support of
Microsoft's alleged malicious behavior centers around Netscape and the "cut
off their air supply" comment. But remember the basics of that story, which
was Microsoft trying to get Netscape to commit to providing a free browser
for Windows in the Win95 timeframe. Netscape said no to that offer,
thinking that browsers would be so important that they could be the next
Microsoft. Now everyone is somehow trying to make something out of free
browsers, which is what Microsoft wanted all along.
If you are a student of marketing tactics, you have to have a sense that
product differentiation is the most important thing that you can establish.
Yet the OSS world seems bent on imitation with virtually all of their
flagship products designed to clone or ape some popular commercial product.
That has never been the road to success.
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:37:51 -0500, DFS wrote:
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> [url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23729366/[/url]
>
> For a company that controls and corrupts the world's media (claims of
> various cola lusers), MS sure has a hard time keeping their own joint
> venture website quiet about Linux and open source.[/color]
Yes, open source has reached the point where it is quite difficult to
ignore.
On 2 Apr 2008 15:35:59 GMT, ray <ray@zianet.com> wrote:
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>On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:37:51 -0500, DFS wrote:
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>> [url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23729366/[/url]
>>
>> For a company that controls and corrupts the world's media (claims of
>> various cola lusers), MS sure has a hard time keeping their own joint
>> venture website quiet about Linux and open source.[/color]
>
>Yes, open source has reached the point where it is quite difficult to
>ignore.[/color]
Nobody is ignoring FireFox, you stupid. MS Supports if since the very
first version of SilverLight, for example. However Firefox is not
Linux, it's popular, huge difference...