Re: Intel rejects Vista, will stay with XP and wait for windows7

Jan Panteltje wrote:
I have been thinking about MS future a lot the last days,
and one thought that keeps echoing in my head is:
'Is MS the new Enron?'

That's the metaphor I've been looking for.

Now that may seem strange,
but I remember in the very last days of Enron,
that the management went looking for _anything_ to make a quick profit,

Yup. The parallels are there.

[. . .]
Unix is still here, maybe MS came, and MS went....
Unix is sound from the basis upwards.

I like this as an example of the M$-vs-Unix metaphor
with MSFT bouncing around like a pinball
compared to a platform with steady course:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:_p5hi-eQqWcJ:fvue.nl/wiki/Bash_and_Windows+*-*-*-*-*-tips+ported-to-*-*-*-*-Windows-*+*-*-knowledge-*-here-to-stay-since-1978+Windows.PowerShell+Windows.Scripting.Language+Don't-*-*-learn-*-another-Microsoft-scripting-invention+Meet.bash+rewrite+batch.files+VBScript+without-*-*-*-either-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*+*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-additional-*-programs&strip=1
.

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