[dundee] [Fwd: Microsoft Inspiration Tour - Tuesday 22nd January 2008 - at Abertay !]

[gordon dunlop]

Go along if you want to, even to get a laugh, but great new
technologies! and Innovation! Why are Microsoft planning their new
operating system, Win 7, on the Linux model: small kernel; modular
systems? Why did they model Explorer 7 on Firefox with the tabbed
browsing? Why is their new hypervisor with Windows server rumoured to
be based on Xen? Yes they are using open source within their code,
that is why they have been shouting about patents and trying to make
agreements with Linux distributions.  Not because we have anything of
theirs but they have got ours, they can do so legally as long as they
make the code available, but to publicly admit to using open source
code would be an embarrassment. We shall see in the coming months what
develops from this situation, I am especially interested in where they
got their new hypervisor from. So if people want to believe their
bullshit about great new technologies and Innovation, keep living in
cloud cuckoo land. Whilst they have still got the desktop market, they
are getting trounced in supercomputing and embedded devices. They fear
Linux because it is so flexible and architecturally superior and is on
a roll, they are trying to stop this. Why are they visiting
Universities in the U.K.? Because Vista is rubbish and innovative
students are looking for alternatives for their operating systems and
their programming (hacking) skills and with the mobile and embedded
Linux giving them opportunities Microsoft feel a bit under threat. The
team is only to keep potential University programmers under the thumb,
wasting their talents really and to cover up their incompetence in
computing.

gordon

On Jan 11, 2008 4:06 PM, Lee Hughes <toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> Seriously, I think it might be an interesting for us lot to go along, and
> see
> what great new technologies microsoft are touting.
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