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Well, you gotta feel sorry for Allchin & Co. (although not sorry enough to spend money on their products, mind you :-). The market where they have their undisputed-except-by-themselves monopoly power -- desktop operating systems -- is also the market where, thanks to declining hardware prices and saturation of the easiest-to-sell-to demographics, profit margins are getting squeezed the most. In the server market, once upon a time, Everybody Knew that Unix was doomed, because all the commercial Unix venders were squabbling with each other while Windows NT was poised to steamroll over them. Now, in its most recent advertising campaign, Microsoft has to tout the benefits of Windows 2000 as compared with ... previous versions of Windows. And in smaller-than-desktop platforms (e.g., embedded systems), Windows CE (or whatever they call it this week) has to compete not just with Linux, but PalmOS, QNX, etc., etc., etc. Allchin, remember, was one of the Microsoft witnesses that Boies eviscerated on the stand, by showing that a video that Microsoft had submitted into evidence had been doctored. Telling ridiculous whoppers for the greater good of The Company is hardly new for him. --sethg - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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