Microsoft "Windows for Linux"

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Mikkel Elmholdt <mikkel.elmholdt at vip.cybercity.dk> wrote in message
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> "Robert Kent" <no at spam.here.com> wrote in message
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> > 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.
>
> Why not just release the Office version for Linux they almost certainly
has
> created somewhere deep inside the Redmond compound? (just as it was
rumoured
> that they had ported several programs to OS/2 but held it back due to
> marketing policies).
>
> Mikkel
>
>
If they released Office for Linux then there is even LESS reason to keep
buying Windows upgrages. However I have seen MS Office for the Mac. Go
figure?