Microsoft is killing itself!
Oh yes..
The more i read about the recent steps and announcements M$ is making the more i am getting convienced in the possibility that Microsoft is actually slowly leading itself into it's own death in their strongest markets.
The latest article i've read that lead me further in such asumption is "Microsoft prepares to kill Linux with different Windows flavours".
While the title of the article says that MS prepares to kill Linux it would have more logic that it is preparing to kill itself! 
:-D
They are planning to offer more "flavors" of windows for certain computing aspects such as printing, networking etc. in order to ensure "better security and lower maintenance costs".
By this MS attempts to actually mimic Linux that has always had "flavors" and was highly modular for just about any task. However, while this modularity and "fragmentation" is natural to Linux as a free operating system which can be both a full "one for all" home operating system and a role-based OS, MS is a completely different story as it's proprietary and it's simply unnatural for it to be what linux is.
MS seems to assume that because Linux had succes by being so modularized and role based that they could have the same succes, so they decided to mimic it and do the same thing in order to beat Linux as their competition.
But that's simply not true and will lead to more harm on MS part than good. They are actually speeding up the process of falling to a niche player contending on certain small markets.
Any comments?
Daniel
I don't agree. Making software more flexible is always good.
Of course, IMHO, ms should completely give up on windows. They're no good at creating operating systems. Ms office is not bad and they also created some nice games. I'd say do the world a favor and port them to linux
I agree PK that it's a good thing about flexibility, but one should wonder if it's at all posibble for a corporation which built itself on round-up all in one software to suddenly start fragmenting it's offers like this..
And if that even get's anywhere, it would never be as good and modular as Linux.
Yes, porting is a good idea, if they were free software, but they're not and therefore i'm not gonna use it anyhow.
I only use free software, the only proprietary left is FL Studio for my music production, but i am working on replacing it with free linux production tools, and i saw alot of options, then i'll be 100% clean and free. :-)
You know, for me, M$ is already dead. :yes:
Daniel
You know, for me, M$ is already dead. :yes:
That seems a little bit optimistic to me.
Well, i like to be an optimist..
When saying that M$ is already dead for me i meant that i am free of that monster. Almost everything i want to do with my computer i can do and i do in linux. And when i say "almost" i mean that only printer and my music productiona app (FL Studio) don't work on linux forcing me to keep win9x onboard. However, those two bugs are just about to be killed as i saw there is support for my printer (Lexmark X75) and there seem to be many free linux music production options i am investigating now.
Very soon, windozes would be an orphan thing for me. :-)
But let's get back to the topic here...
I am not really resting just yet (considering M$ dead) and by that i am not saying that i am on some quest of helping Microsoft "get killed", but helping the fight against all the bad things that it brings to the world such as proprietary software, monopoly, soft patents etc. That's part of my mission as a free software advocate and the owner of this site.
Thank you.
Daniel
At this moment, I don't use any proprietary software.
Well... not true. I don't think the BIOS is open source is it?
Did you know ms is experimenting with releasing software as open source? Maybe they will see open source can also be profitable. If not, bad luck for them. I don't care, there are enough open source alternatives.
Of course free open source software can be profitable...
I am actually going to crack my head over it and write an article proving and explaining how and why free software can be profitable to a programmer, but not only a programmer. I hope to "demistify" this to the community once and for all. And it would be a good continuation to my last recognized articles "free software and programmers exploitation" :-)
I am also not sure about BIOS being free software, but isn't it that it counts as firmware and not software at all..hm.. or not.. Anyway, if BIOS is real software (probably is), we must urge BIOS makers to make it free.
Thanks
Daniel
don't forget to forward that article to
I wonder what the intentions of ms with this open source software are. Are they really interested in the possibilities or just trying to look less "evil"?
I-am-PK wrote:
don't forget to forward that article to
Yeah.. but i don't want to turn out spamming Micro$oft.
..and who knows if it's his real e-mail address.
I wonder what the intentions of ms with this open source software are. Are they really interested in the possibilities or just trying to look less "evil"?
It's probably the latter. Microsoft practically CAN'T be really free open source software, it's like unnatural to them and i really don't believe they'll just embrace it. So yeah, they are probably wanting to look less "evil" and attract some of the opensourcers to their side (but at the same time they are acting against us, with software patents etc.)
Thanks
Daniel