Gowator Posted April 21, 2005 Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 news article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 21, 2005 Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 giving in or trying to get more control? hmmmm... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted April 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 giving in or trying to get more control? hmmmm... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> both ? Who knows M$ man speak with forked tongue.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted April 21, 2005 Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 It's Microsoft. Definitely control. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted April 21, 2005 Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 I'm with Ix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted April 21, 2005 Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 control with a lot of business tactics to spice things up. ms is the perfect business operator: everything is business. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted April 22, 2005 Report Share Posted April 22, 2005 MS copying stuff from linux again to put into their next release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 22, 2005 Report Share Posted April 22, 2005 they don't have to copy anything to do this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted April 22, 2005 Report Share Posted April 22, 2005 Yeah, it's all about control. It's a bit patronising as well - like, "yeah, shame, you're using Linux, so I guess we'll have to make our Operating System capable of working with it to accomodate you until you can move over to the superior Longhorn server." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Posted April 22, 2005 Report Share Posted April 22, 2005 I thought this was quite positive, with the obvious exception of the Much as that hurts my eyescomment which seemed like something my 7 year old would say when told to do something he didn't want to. I also liked the articles introduction about the scope being up to and including Linux systems (my emphasis). I read it as a MS control thing but also an admission that people are going to be using other software and that if they do not provide this functionality they (MS) risk losing out completely. Leo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted April 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2005 very much my views Leo.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sellis Posted April 22, 2005 Report Share Posted April 22, 2005 I'm in two minds about this. It could go either way. The good way: Linux is being taken seriously by M$, which means that lots of people may give it a look-in where it wasn't available before. This may give it traction in a business marketplace. The bad way: support is flaky and problems are blamed on Linux. Also, people considering moving away from M$ to Linux may just take this support as an excuse not to bother migrating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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