A Microsoft Windows / Linux Conspiracy Theory

The only way on Earth Microsoft can serious take on Apple’s BSD flavor is with another BSD — PC-BSD. Like Apple’s OS X, the licensing allows for Microsoft to add any proprietary code they like. Frankly, if they want something stable, but offering some flex with what can be added, this would be the most likely candidate.

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… and why did they hound Robertson into giving up his chintzy Linux distro name?

Of course soon we will see MICROSOFT LINDOWS.

A Microsoft Windows / Linux Conspiracy Theory

Regardless of whether they do switch to a *NIX type system, or stick with their 20-year old DOS-originated system (which I think they will) Microsoft really needs to realize that Vista is just a multi-billion dollar flop.

They should salvage the effective and efficient components of Vista (read: remove whatever they’ve added that drive’s the base-requirements so high) and get to work on a current basic OS. They bit off more than they could handle, and I can see it happening again as long as they are trying to keep pace with Mac or even Linux (Compiz Fusion provides similar effects as Aero Glass, however it runs fine on my DX9 128mb video card and AthlonXP 2500+ w/ 1GB of RAM.

Plainly put Vista is a bloated rushed product that clearly has a lot of **** under the hood. Microsoft needs to get back to their core competency of serving businesses and home users with a basic Operating System and leave the snaz to the professionals (and hobbyists).

Isn’t there a Unix support in Vista Ultimate? I think it is very likely that M$ next OS is kind of Unix based. There a free videos about the Singularity OS Research Project from M$ and if you look closely to the screens showed there you might see the one or other typical Unix line.

I’ve entertained the same thoughts - but two reasons why it won’t work: (1) Microsoft can’t do *anything* right, even if they hired Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman to manage it. (2) Microsoft already had Xenix. Once bitten, twice shy.

A Microsoft Windows/Linux Conspiracy Theory…

I think Microsoft has given up on Vista behind the scenes. I’m sending this via email because well, I know it sounds like tinfoil hat time, but I think there’s some validity to it….

hat time, but I think there’s some validity to it. Microsoft realized with XP that the NT kernel’s days were numbered, which is why they talked of the complete rewrite that was to be Longhorn / Vista (and be wonderful and ship in 2003, etc).Read More

I think Microsoft has to get with the times. DOS-based operating systems are not only “not with the times”, they are also the least secure operating systems around…a low-level hacker can and will find a way to hack into a PC running a DOS-based OS (including Macs running XP under Boot Camp) and hijack the computer for nefarious reasons.

Microsoft has to go back to the drawing board…..even if it means striking a deal with Apple to let Microsoft sell a Microsoft-branded version of Mac OS X. UNIX and Linux are here to stay. I would seriously consider using a version of Windows based on PC-BSD.

’s Disclosure and the UNIX/Linux Conspiracy Theory Posted in Microsoft, GNU/Linux, SCO, Novell, SLES/SLED, UNIX at 7:06 pm by Roy Schestowitz It wasn’t until LinuxToday cited it that we noticed acurious conspiracy theory. Microsoft realized with XP that the NT kernel’s days were numbered, which is why they talked of the complete rewrite that was to be Longhorn / Vista (and be wonderful and ship in 2003, etc). Well with all of the efforts that went into that, and

—Microsoft has given up on Vista behind the scenes

An interesting thought. I know that MS will sooner or later ‘compromise’ with the open source community. It just won’t be in ways that we will agree with and will definitely benefit MS (and especially its key founder) only.

On another note, I was wondering if MS was waiting for the open source community to do the ‘dirty’ work on a piece of code or software project, then come in when it was ‘refined’ and ‘use’ the code for their own OS. If a particular open source project never reached a ‘refined’ state (perhaps for lack of interest from the end user) then pass it on for something more lucrative.

In other words let the “free” (and perhaps “unpaid”) programmers do the work of “paid” programmers then use the results in a “highly paid” for OS.

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