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We've seen enough corporate sociopathy to accurately answer that question.
Why didn't they just go with BSD?
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He didn't. This is a standard bit of Blackberry astroturfing. Instead of innovating, this is what BB does now.
Larry Niven as well. Was it the third or fourth Ringworld book that went on at great length about various humanoid species fucking?
What choice does Microsoft have at this point? If they simple cede the mobile market, they risk Google marching right up the middle with a series of devices that come to resemble a full computing platform. And that most certainly is Google's intent. That's why they're putting considerable resources into Google Docs; they want it to be good enough, and once it is good enough, then suddenly that Chromebook looks like a pretty decent competitor to a more expensive Windows laptop.
At the end of the day, Microsoft has to at least gain some market share or it will begin to see its most valuable market; Exchange-Office, begin to leak away.
Neither does saying "it is the greatest next thing", apparently.
As much as I need to access such documents on my phone, I can. I can't conceive of actually wanting to work on such documents on a smartphone, but to view them, Google Docs seems to a reasonably good job, and when I had an iPhone, Apple's ability to view Office files was good enough in most cases.
That's always been MS's problem, they bring nothing to the table that isn't delivered by Google or Apple, and the things that they could bring to the table, like AD integration, they don't. Coupled with an absolutely miserable app store that is a laughably stunted entity compared to the major Android and Apple markets, it's little wonder they've had such a problem.
So we need the Dr. Pepper of cell phones?
Will it be the year Microsoft takes the smart phone market from Android (aka:Linux)?
This is starting to sound a lot like the year of the Linux desktop.
Heinlein wasn't the only one. Some of Philip Jose Farmer's later work had a pretty sexually bizarre bent
That was worth the laugh!
Your windows delusion is grand for an anonymous coward! Having spent the better part of 20 years working as a Linux professional I can tell you that all the fortune 500 and above companies have, use, and enjoy Linux. It is well supported, COTS apps are all over the place, and the OSS tools are well documented within the companies where they are used. They are far better documented than the custom internally developed apps for windows that every company has.
Windows has it's place in business just a Linux does. No one OS can do it all perfectly and any manager/person who claims that all your problems can be solved by switching to (Linux/Windows/Mac/Solairs/HP-UX/AIX) should be fired on the spot!
They can join BlackBerry in the "any day now, we'll be on top!" movement.
His later books got more than a little bizarre and disturbing. Strange things seem to happen to aging SF writers.
I'm sure it's true to a point, but considering the fauna that has lived there long before humans came along, I'd say the jungle predates human activity by a very long period of time.
Documentation is the castor oil of programming. Managers know it must be good because the programmers hate it so much.
