Just read the report from ECIS (European Community for Interoperable Systems) which I found through Groklaw. The report adresses the Microsoft history of anticompetitive behaviour throughout IThistory and it’s indeed intriguing.
I believe Groklaw does a better job than me in making the points – it just confirms my standing conserning Microsoft.
Openly admitting that I’m occationally reads “Boycott Novell” one could argue that I’m somewhat biased. The fun is that the credit for making me a 100% Linuxuser must be granted to Microsoft. I do quite a bit of filtering before accepting “Boycott Novell” material as solid.
Trouble is, that whenever I find something that attracts my attention, I’m more often than not in line. Often it matches information obtained elsewhere, and the pieces matches holes in the puzzle I try to solve.
I’m increasingly concerned about Mono and the .net implications, and after a coupple of discussions arising out of the C++ version of Tomboy – Gnote, I’m a bit concerned about the Novell influence over Gnome as well. Somehow my thoughts regarding Mono and the Gnome 3.0 projects are not positive. At all.
I suspect (and the rumors are) that Microsoft will drop the forthcoming Windows7 trial version into the wild just after the release of Ubuntu 9.04.
Strategicly smart, but what everybody are adressing at the moment is the 3 application limit on Windows 7 for NetBooks. I do not believe it’s a market strategy. More likely it’s due to the demanding Vista 6.1 kernel. It doesn’t seem to have changed much, and the applications are as demanding as ever. So Windows 7 will probably run smoothly on NetBooks – if you don’t do anything that is…….
