Microsoft "Windows for Linux"

Nigel Feltham nigel.feltham at libertysurf.co.uk
Wed May 9 13:41:09 CDT 2001


Robert Kent wrote:

> -cross posted to comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine-
> 
> Microsoft should consider producing "Windows for Linux". It could be their
> own version of Wine, but it would be nearly 100% compatible with the
> latest version of Windows. Microsoft could require that users have a
> retail copy of Windows to make this work.
> 
> It's a win-win situation. Linux users could run nearly all of the
> available Windows applications, and Microsoft would still make money
> selling Windows licenses.
> 

It would also be the start of the downfall of the company - when users 
switch to Linux running a Microsoft compatibility layer they will realise 
how crap MS's code really is and eventually switch all the applications to 
native Linux software written by someone else ( openoffice or Koffice maybe 
instead of MS office) and what would MS be able to do then.





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