__/ [ Rex Ballard ] on Tuesday 13 June 2006 16:28 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Promises, promises, promises
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | TechEd 2006 The one advantage of delivering an uninspiring keynote is
>> | that it is very unlikely to inspire a myth or legend that I can later
>> | have fun imploding, but that was the task that seemed to be set for Bob
>> | Muglia and Ray Ozzie at the Microsoft TechED keynote here in Boston.
>> |
>> | It was short on technology and long on promises...
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/13/teched_keynote/
>
> I liked the second Paragraph
> <blockquote>
> Tt was short on technology and long on promises; with a total of four
> promises forming the cornerstone of their fundament-numbing two and a
> half hour introduction to TechED 2006: Advance the business with IT
> solutions manage complexity, achieve agility, protect information,
> control access, amplify the impact of your people
> </blockquote>
>
> Manage Complexity,achieve agility, protect information, control access,
> and amplify the impact of users - Sounds like LINUX to me.
>
> Let me guess, Vista is supposed to be a "Better Linux than Linux"?
>
> Linux is what Windows/Vista wants to be when it grows up.
>
> :D
*polite smile*
* When it wanted to be better BSD than BSD, it stole the TCP/IP stack
* As soon as it attained to become better UNIX than UNIX it released that
clunky NT
* When it finally decided to compete with GNU/Linux, it found itself lost,
scraping projects after 4 years of full development (Longhorn)
But... a promise is a promise, right? No premise though...
Best wishes,
Roy
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