[canuck_conservative]

The Market drags Microsoft, kicking and screaming, into the future.

[demlosers]

Penguin Ping.

[Pyrion]

I wonder if Microsoft will honor the GNU license and provide its source code free-of-charge...

When hell freezes over...

[dennisw]

If this pans out, and that's a big if, Microsoft has some kind of bastardized Trojan horse Linux in the wings that will be used to destroy the real Linux.

[HiTech RedNeck]

[RippleFire]

BUMP

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Market drags? Huh? You silly cannucks.

[ChadGore]

Note: This is vaporware.

[Dominic Harr]

Who in the Hell is the 'META' Group?

Has anyone ever heard of them before?

This is either:

1. Someone in an unknown consulting agency asking, "How can we get a ton of free advertising? I know, make an outrageous prediction and release a 'report' to the news media!"

2. A trial-balloon by MS, another attempt to reach out to the independent developer community (who currently won't work with MS solutions on a bet and wiew MS the way the independent voters view the D party) thru false advertising (like the rash of recent falsified, MS-bought 'studies' showing Linux is cheaper, .NET is faster, etc). MS is clearly currently engaging in a massive media campaign of disinformation and propaganda, so this could very well just be another brick in that wall.

3. A sure sign that this 'META' Group is actually a crack house.

It's possible that MS will port IE, Office, or a few other pieces of software to Linux eventually. MS is the proverbial 'house of cards', most divisions operate at a massive loss which is paid for by the 85% profit margin their monopolization of the market produces.

If/when that profit margin slips, with all other divisions losing hundreds of millions a year, the entire thing will implode very, very quickly.

So eventually MS will start looking for additional revenue, and porting their software to Linux will eventually be forced on them.

But I doubt it will be soon . . . Just My Humble Opinion.

[flamefront]

The dirty little secret is that a large part of what MS purveys has been ripped off work from unix and internet for years.