|Has anyone else heard!!

[wizard101uk]

As I said has anyone heard on the web etc. According to a guy high up in Microsoft, has said that if Microsoft is to brake up he thinks this would end Microsoft and especially Windows OS systems.
If so are we going to feel sorry for old Billy boy.
I know I won't.
:cool:

[bigparsnip]

Yeh, but its a shame realy, I mean the company seems to finaly have goten it's act together with windows 2000 and XP, and produced something that I am actualy quite happy to use, and (I know there are some out there who will hate me for saying this) I prefer to any of the competition I have ever used. SO what if bill is getting rich off this, it works, it might almost be worth it (well, probably not). But, it would be a shame to see them go now, just as this 64bit thing is comming allong.

But hey ho, what can you do?

[Bovon]

I'll tell you one thing...should M$ go under, it will rock the world. You ever stop to think how many puters uses good ole Winderz?. It may not be the best, and maybe Linux or some other OS will take it on one day, but right now?...there would be killin` in the streets, and knashing of teeth.

[wizard101uk]

Microsoft must see Linux as a big threat and that it seem Linux are bigger contenders than most people think.
Why do I say that? In the past Microsoft have supposed to have went forward to by the Open source OS.
I ahve to say Bill Gates saw what he thought the future might go like and wanted a piece of it.
Good for him, but I still think they could drop the Windows price down even a little.

[araaraara]

You'd think with the "brains" that they have over there at MS that they would have thought of this simple solution years ago. Simply "sell" Windows to another "independent" and "private" company who would continue to develop it the exact same was which MS did, only it would be called SM Skylights:D

There is no way that Microsoft will go under, no matter what happens. Old Bill probably has enough money to buy Microsoft ten times.

[$1500-P4 gamer]

The price part is a point though.Think about it.Windows95-ME net4.0-2000 have all been ripped off like crazy.There everywhere.
Main reason=$100-$200 cost for upgrade/full install of OS.So M$ does big time reserach and all that & spends lots of $ on doing this, in a effort to stop piracey.That makes the cost stay high longer till that is paid off.Plus it disgruntles users about the product activation feature.Hackers broke the Xp one week after release!Wan't people to stop ripping you off.Release the OS at affordable prices.
I don't think half the illegal sites would take the chance if windows cost $40 per home user copy.And I don't think half or more people that do this would continue warezing Windows either.So what stops being stolen is a turn around on the profits.Do less costly anti-piracy
work-stop haveing to catch people=more $-More people buying latest OS almost every time.

I don't know why he doesn't do it that way.But he is the marketing King so I guess theirs prob. more to it than that?I know when I fork over for a new OS I grumble at the cost.I don't steal it but I'm not happy with the cost either.

[dgardner]

I hadn't heard it was going bust, and I can't really see it, I know they are trying to split the company up into smaller ones, in an effect to remove M$ monopoly on the market. I have also heard Sun are sueing M$ for incompatability with java in XP, because M$ are trying to increase the use of their varient of the languange. It is also nice to see that M$ can't produce games machines properly as well because like Windows they have found 2 errors with the X-Box, 1 it scratches the discs (how can you not notice that!!!!) and 2 the controllers are uncomfortable so they are redesigning them.
Bigparsnip i agree with the window 2000 thing, but i think XP stinks, its bad for games and compatability is a nightmare, I had it on my computer for 5 days, then i went back to 2000.
M$ really need to look into security issues much more before they release software too, if you think how many people out there use their products, and then how many loop holes and backdoors there are, that my friends is probably where terrorists could do the most damage if they wanted!

[vass0922]

While I'm never one to defend MS, I for one am *mostly* :D glad they're there...

Do you realize just how many people they employ :eek:
Not to mention the sheer number of people that have done quite well (granted its by crushing other companies under its heel and doing every dastardly deed possible... ) but flat out, they give a lot of people jobs in this country and brings a lot of money into the country as well. I for one work with MS software, as I have not yet gotten good enough with Linux to get a job in it yet.

I like MS development tools and sql server.. I hate the unstability of them, but its the tools themselves that are good to work with.

I don't think they'll fall, MS is way too smart for that. How it would effect them I'm unsure, but I really don't see any chance of them falling. They didn't get that big for making dumb decisions.

[hyborn]

Speaking of which - anyone got a hi-res "Blue screen of death" wallpaper :D

[Ziz]

Not that I want to see MS get broken up, because that would cause even MORE problems than it solves, but imagine the poetic justice of it?

Congresspeople and government officials of all levels have this idiotic notion that they exist in a world seperate from the rest of us, in spite of how much they pretend to be working "for the people". The one thing they truly have in common with us is that they most likely run some flavor of Windows and/or Office on their machines. Before, they only had 2 or 3 tech support numbers to call. After the breakup, they'll have a dozen different numbers! They'll spend even less time getting things done "for the people" because they'll be spending even more time on the phone trying to get their computers to work! So they become victims of very solution they forced on the world in the first place.

[welsh wizard]

Firstly it will take years for any settlement to occur with MS, they have the money to keep banging this back through the courts for years, as for Linux, they may become a contender, but for the average home user at the moment they are to far out there,

DG may want slow linux down but XP is doing damge to MS, BG always wants his product out beforre all the bugs are found, by the time MS has sorted the OS out into some thing sweet, he brings out a new OS, so you start all over again.

Also BG is looking toward wireless for the future and also knows that windows is on more systems than any other OS.

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