Comment: Re:Win7 == VistaSE (haiku) (Score 2, Interesting) 672
An echo chamber, to be sure. But what of competition?
In a world where all the applications worked seemlessly across operating systems (something similar to that of the PC hardware side), then competition would take hold and customers would get more choice.
How about if the DoJ breaks up Microsoft into 3 companies? One of them continues to support and update Windows XP. The others do likewise, except with Windows Vista and Windows Seven. They all compete to offer the best features, performance, and value to customers while maintaining application interoperability.
I think that would be interesting to see which survive, and which thrive.
And if we extended this to *nix, Mac, et al? More competition, more choices. A better tomorrow?
In a world where all the applications worked seemlessly across operating systems (something similar to that of the PC hardware side), then competition would take hold and customers would get more choice.
How about if the DoJ breaks up Microsoft into 3 companies? One of them continues to support and update Windows XP. The others do likewise, except with Windows Vista and Windows Seven. They all compete to offer the best features, performance, and value to customers while maintaining application interoperability.
I think that would be interesting to see which survive, and which thrive.
And if we extended this to *nix, Mac, et al? More competition, more choices. A better tomorrow?