This is what I call
Microsoft,
a
Big Fat Copycat. The wealthiest software firm in the states
is planning to make more money by their next BIG innovation of
windows(tm), what they call
Longhorn. Longhorn is supposed
to be the world's most sophisticated software (a super windows),
which IF everything goes well, will be released after 2005. If
that happens, I guess the monopoly will go into a very different
phase, meaning that a lot of silicon valley firms such as
Oracle, AOL Time Warner, Sun, Sony wouldn't like since
Longhorn
will handle a lot of those functions which is currently handled
by those firms.
Bill Gates, Microsoft's founder and business brain is talking to
a lot of the employees directly these days and biz-planning their
newest product after he switched jobs three years ago with Steve
Ballmer (current CEO of Micro$oft) and became the Chief Software
Architect. He claims that he has never missed work or called in
sick in 27 years!! He's now working harder than ever, what does
he want? Money?
He has a lot of it..
Fame? Are you crazy?! Bigger company? You must be kidding me!!
So what does he really want? Apparently, work is fun for him.. He
loves what he does and believes in what he does. Or maybe he likes
to be challenged by open source and free software fans and show
us he's unbeatable?
Obviously, other big firm won't be sitting watching Longhorn
being developed at Microsoft.. It's a big project, but the team
believes in its feasibility, will they do that or grab the
ready code from somewhere? Lets wait and see.. Some of you guys
may already know that the original software for Microsoft's
well known OS, has been *bought* by Bill Gates in 1981 from
a rival Seattle programmer. This software was purchased for
$50,000 and later named MS/DOS. Another well known example you
may remember, was the court case in 1990, where Apple Computer
sued them claiming Microsoft has violated their UI patent for
windows look and feel. Is
Longhorn gonna go through the
same story? It will have MSN messenger, IIS and MSSQL to beat
Yahoo! and AOL messengers, and web server and database suit
of Sun and Oracle.. That's why I call them
Big Fat Copycat.
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