Posted on 09/24/2005 8:51:48 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
In an extensive memo called "The Web is the Next Platform" that was introduced as evidence in Microsoft's antitrust trial five years ago, Microsoft engineer Ben Slivka described a "nightmare" scenario for the software giant.
"The Web...exists today as a collection of technologies that deliver some interesting solutions today, and will grow rapidly in the coming years into a full-fledged platform (underlined for emphasis in the original memo) that will rival--and even surpass--Microsoft's Windows," Slivka wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.com ...
Even thought not stated I couldn't help but think of it as I read this.
Obviously googleos would be linux based.(or BSD, solaris, or some other OSS)
Wow, I appreciate the link.
Alot of it makes sense given the context placed by the cnet article and MS's own statements on/about google.
Seems a google OS is in the cards. The question is when?
Mr. Bill's *other* nightmare took a giant leap closer
this week as well:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050923142231938
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2005091305273070
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050911201041458
The state of MA decided it didn't want to be locked into
MS proprietary .doc formats anymore.
And MS answered by pretending that they can't support the
open formats, even though they're based on XML, which MS
already supports.
By integrating the newsrooms we plan to diminish and eventually eliminate the difference between newspaper journalists and Web journalists -- to reorganize our structures and our minds to make Web journalism, in forms that are both familiar and yet-to-be-invented, as natural to us as writing and editing, and to do all of this without losing the essential qualities that make us The Times. Our readers are moving, and so are we.
Google is just amazing!
Clearly Google has built their own Server Operating system, why would anyone else want it?
The threat to Microsoft comes from erosion, with a simple Linux system, running a Firefox browser why do you REALLY need a Windows based system to access the internet?
Course there are tons of applications for a separate Windows machine, just keep it off of the internet!
^^^^^^^^^^^Clearly Google has built their own Server Operating system, why would anyone else want it?^^^^^^^^^^^
I could think of many reasons from security to DRM.
^^^^^^^^^^The threat to Microsoft comes from erosion, with a simple Linux system, running a Firefox browser why do you REALLY need a Windows based system to access the internet?^^^^^^^^^^
This is working out well for my immediate family, none of which run windows anymore.
^^^^^^^^^^Course there are tons of applications for a separate Windows machine, just keep it off of the internet!^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yup. A buddy of mine does that. He's very pro windows again. Being as it's completely disconnected from the internet his computing experience on windows is very similar to that of a linux(or even mac) user's. Just turn on the computer and it works. Shut down when done. Rinse and repeat.
Windows still has it's flaws, but so does linux.
BUT I am running Fedora Core 4 in 64 bit mode on a low end AMD64 X2 and it is FAST....
They're going to keep on lying, covering up for Democrat crooks and perverts and slandering conservative people and ideas?
Google, typical open source leftists.
Authors accuse Google of 'massive copyright infringement'
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-09-20-google-authors_x.htm
Yeah, I know. I uhh....
This is why I try to always look at linux as a product.
I hate that open source is loaded with leftists and as your link shows, they're very unwilling to play by any rules other than their own. Richard Stallman comes to mind. It does bother me at times being a contributor to the OSS movement. But of course there is IBM, Red hat, Novell, Sun, and so on. So it isn't *all* bad.
However, I really don't have much choice.
I don't need the hassles of microsoft's "we really are secure now, honest" windows product....
And I'm not a big fan of apple's "permanent loan" mac product. That and I can't afford one anyways.
2029: Skynet becomes self aware.
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