[dr_who]

I see this move by Microsoft as an attempt to get into the same market that Lindows is now grabbing a share of

I see this move by Microsoft as an attempt to keep the market going. As for Lindows, if they actually have a product at this point, much less something that could compete with GEOs, OS/2 Warp, BeOS, AmigaOS, or all those freeware Unix clones, I'd be surprised.

--- the low end consumer market served by Walmart.

Need to locate and visit a Walmart one day and check them out. The fact that anyone would go to a Walmart to buy a computer takes some getting used to. But I like the concept of cheap computers.

Bill Gates is going mano a mano with Michael Robertson. Whoever can grab the low cost computer share will emerge victorious in the Operating System Wars. Microsoft/FIC vs Lindows/Micron

My bet would have to be on Microsoft. Sorry.

; its hard to see Redmond lining up with a hardware company to woo the Walmart masses if Lindows weren't the newest kid on the block.

Hardware can be dirt cheap. Even if Microsoft buys poorly designed extra cheapo hardware from some other manufacturer and slaps the Microsoft label on it. Come to think of it, they probably already do that with other things that they sell.

[Willie Green]

The fact that anyone would go to a Walmart to buy a computer takes some getting used to. But I like the concept of cheap computers.

Hmmmmmm.... you must be too young to remember Packard Bell 386 SX machines.

"Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it."

[TheBattman]

"I see this move by Microsoft as an attempt to keep the market going. As for Lindows, if they actually have a product at this point, much less something that could compete with GEOs, OS/2 Warp, BeOS, AmigaOS, or all those freeware Unix clones, I'd be surprised.
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Wal-Mart already is selling quantities of machines running Lindows....