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I'll leave it at this Richard.

Yes. A company that claims billions of dollars in R&D can't produce a document which can survive standardisation
(community did), can't provide interoperability
documentation for EC several years after being charged,
several years to bring out an OS update with most of it's
much talked about features dropped (rest copies of other
OSes).



You obviously don't know the history of documents. Or what happens over decades of having the most popular OS, Office product and most every other application, in the entire world. If you don't undersand the complexities involved, and the basics of capitalism that allow for competitive advantage. (you call it "lock-in" or some other negatively slanted phrase) and only are going to see it from one perspective,then it's hopeless.


Let's let the people speak, not the governments of the world. the people overwhelming choose Microsoft, even when options abound.


btw, Microsoft has displace many Unix/linux shops and replaced them with Windows. Some of it has been growing the server market, that is true, which only shows what the new money, the new blood wants in a server operating system. They had their fill of the old, time to replace it with something easy to install, operate and administration is a snap.

My main site was Unix in the 90s. But that failed experiment only rushed the move to Windows and productivity and, unfortunately, the need of a number of positions, rose and fell respectively.


Speaking of "copying from others", which is a joke since Microsoft was ahead of Apple in all major categories, dominates their space with Office programs, provided their development environment for years via licensing and Apple got on intel and quickly provided the means to run Windows on the way over priced Mac, which it turns out, along with paralells, to be the main use of a Mac nowadays. It's an expensive new PC OEM for Microsoft basically, only they get a retail sale in that case. Bonus for Microsoft.


Anyway, besides modeling Unix/Minix, Linux has done nothing but try to reproduce the windows experience with the linux engine. I've seem not *one* example of innovation come out of the linux camp since day one, but more of an inheritence of govenment bought technology and a strong push to try and match windows, feature for feature.


Mono, Samba, the distro with teh Vista look and feel (poorly done look and feel i might add) and many hundreds of projects aimed at obtaning MS functionality.


hmmm....seems odd Samba and the Mono group and many others, of the millions involved in developing Linux. Perhaps the marketshare of Linux is not taking off from the very reason you think MS stinks. The public smells something rotten with so man people being so down on the competition, in a religious zealot kind of way. That scares people away I'm afraid. That's what I'm seeing. And there are those that don't want their data store in an open format for security reasons.

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