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Wednesday, February 2, 2005 |
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Microsoft Linux: a reader emailed tonight, asking about Microsoft Linux. He referenced an article I wrote almost exactly a year ago, published on NewsForge. I, a bit flip, wrote "New Year's prediction: Longhorn will never ship, but Microsoft Linux will." Interestingly, this month's Wired has a "leaked from the future" memo, dated October 31, 2008 (remember the Halloween memo?) from Microsoft employee Linus Torvalds to Bill Gates complaining that WinX should be pronounced "Winks" not "Winux."
In that article, I mentioned Apple's move to open source underpinnings for Mac OS X: Microsoft often (always?) follows where Apple leads. Users ulimately don't care who wrote the code, just so it works. Apple has done a very good job, IMHO, in OS X in owning the things users care about - user experience, music, photos, home videos, email and the browser - and letting everything else percolate up - well debugged, virus-free and at no cost - from the open source community.
As Microsoft's price points collapse - already underway - can they honestly not avoid adopting open source? "WinX" or whatever they call it, will happen: MS has been just as bad as Apple once was at focusing on short term gain versus long term viability, to the ultimate detriment of their product. The Windows user experience sucks - thanks to virii, spam et al. and it's going to get worse before it gets better. MS will have to go there, and not completely on their own terms (my 2005 MS prediction). Check back in 12 months, and let's see where this all is at... |
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Canada's Parliament is considering Bill C-38, "An Act respecting certain aspects of legal capacity for marriage for civil purposes." This page has more information on the status of marriage and same-sex unions in Canada. Tip from Boing Boing... Comments 7:26:06 AM 
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