This just in from mu lug. http://blogs.computer...

[Joel Goguen]

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Mr. C clark wrote:
> I don't think Microsoft can think outside the box, but that's just my
> biased opinion.
> If they want to succeed they will have to start from scratch, and stop
> patching a system that started broken.
> 
> Chris.
> 
>>: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:40:53 -0800
>> Subject: Re: This just in from mu lug. http://blogs.computer...
>> From: dylanmccall at gmail.com
>> To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
>>
>> I think Microsoft's big mistake with Windows is not that its slow or
>> clunky or ugly (which is debatable), but that the operating system has
>> always been tethered to specific platforms. Microsoft simply doesn't
>> have the reflexes to react to manufacturers' needs, as seen with
>> netbooks.
>> They have Windows Mobile, but it is a completely detached platform. It
>> may as well be PalmOS.
>>
>> The free software ecosystem, on the other hand, (particularly with
>> Linux) is a more modular kind of platform. It could easily be adapted
>> for what manufacturers wanted, almost immediately. Chances are
>> Microsoft learned their lesson this time, but they have a lot of
>> rethinking to do.
>>
>> -Dylan
>>
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> 
Which we all know they won't do.  They'll have to break
backwards-compatibility to fix all the broken things, and they know
they'd never get businesses hooked on that idea.


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Joel Goguen
Ubuntu User #15951
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