Has Microsoft Gone Linux-Crazy?
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| Before anybody says "Maybe Microsoft wants to go into the Unix
| business themselves." - remember, they already tried that. Xenix was
| the Microsoft Unix, leveraged through them to eventually become SCO
| Unix. And we all know how that turned out, don't we?
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http://www.askreamaor.com/computer-related/linux-and-unix/has-microsoft-gone-linux-crazy/
Canon shows off Windows Vista running a Mac application in printer TV ad
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| And whilst I'm over-analyzing, if you look closely, you'd notice
| they're running Windows Vista Beta 2 with the 'old' icons and
| Media Player mini-player. Just a bit of extra useless
| information for the weekend.
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http://www.istartedsomething.com/20070610/canon-ad-mac-on-vista/
Related:
Xenix: The Microsoft Linux
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| Later versions of Xenix did have networking support (and increased
| hardware support), but by this time, Linux had already started making
| its way into the business world.
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http://www.whenpenguinsattack.com/2007/05/29/xenix-the-microsoft-linux/
Apple Envy Seizes Microsoft
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| When put in this context Microsoft just seems so big and slow and
| old, hidebound by 30 years of culture and organizational silos
| that seem impregnable. And it appears that Vista - the product,
| the PR, the marketing approach - is the result of such an
| organization. At times brilliant, very heavy, complicated and
| expensive. This is not a product for today. This is a product
| for an era when the desktop ruled. And that era is long gone.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070206/26163_id.html?.v=2
Emails show MS experienced OS X Tiger envy
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| Newly released documents reveal that Microsoft executives
| were awed by Apple's future operating system features,
| saying that the it may not be able to achieve Apple's
| innovation levels and acknowledging future, similar
| Windows Vista features would be directly compared with Mac OS X.
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http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/02/08/ms.inspired.by.os.x.tiger/
Microsoft 'officelabs' looks to open source for inspiration
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| Is a commercial software vendor like Microsoft really ready
| and able to think more like its open-source competitors? Will
| a change in philosophy lead to changes in Microsoft product
| development and delivery (in our lifetimes)? Guess we'll see.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=248
NT influenced by Unix
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| (Gates:) "And through Windows NT, you can see it throughout the design.
| In a weak sense, it is a form of Unix. There are so many of the
| design decisions that have been influenced by that environment. And
| that's no accident."
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http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/gates_quote.html
The Redmond Copying Machine?
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| "Amazing. New software is put out, a manager sees it and decides that the
| creative part of their day is making color screen captures of the
| software and presenting it to the copying--er, engineering team."
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http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/the-redmond-copying-machine/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDNuq94Zg_8
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