Microsoft Threatens to Yank XP and 2000 → ..and?

So what's the bad news?

Bad news is we'll see a lot of people get screwed because of a few pasty-faced lawyers from what is quite arguably one of the best MS software products that is out there now.

I don't have any favor of MS for their business practices, but they do make good products, and I've had good experience with their stuff. XP is arguably the best OS from them I've used, and wouldn't settle for anything less from future rigs.

*nix may be good for some, but you also have to consider those that simply just want to be able to make things work the first time, without having to recompile a new kernel every @#$^%in' time you update a driver (pun not intended; just seems that way from what I see. Correct me if I'm wrong about this, as I do want to keep my facts straight), or deal with proprietary hardware and software (Apple).

Don't forget this is just the settlement. This is NOT the crime. They have already been found guilty of their crime. So what punishment do you suggest?

This punishment is simply the one they should have paid Several years ago when Nutscrape first brought up the issue. However, at that time I think IE genuinely was required in its entirety for other software to use its HTML interpreter. Today I don't think it is.

said by nil:

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So what's the bad news?

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Bill will have to work again.

Well, let us think back on the time where there was a breakup suggested of MSFT. One Idea I had was that they would still be all one company, but their dev. staff would be focused on different things:•"OS team" - strictly for developing ONLY the OS kernel more, as well as modularizing the different add-ons to the OS, so that it would be a bit easier to uninstall things that a user may not see necessary•"IE squad" - simply put, these guys will focus on making IE, starting w/ a clean slate of code again, like they did in version 4 • Office team - strictly for all MS Office programs•MS gamer development - for the microsoft games they do have, and for dev'ing for the X-box • Finally, one uber-team strictly for bug-searching, hack/crash-testing, rather than to have the same developers that made it do it, so that there would be less "bias error"

What do you think?

Hey, a shiny new star!!

But, anyhow, with that idea, I think that Microsoft would then have a better chance of looking reputable, and it would look more like they did earn their current status and presence in the computing industry, and gives a reason for the anti-MS people to shut up, IMO. *shrug* oh well, there's always someone complainin' about something.

said by C0deZer0:

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Well, let us think back on the time where there was a breakup suggested of MSFT. One Idea I had was that they would still be all one company, but their dev. staff would be focused on different things:•"OS team" - strictly for developing ONLY the OS kernel more, as well as modularizing the different add-ons to the OS, so that it would be a bit easier to uninstall things that a user may not see necessary•"IE squad" - simply put, these guys will focus on making IE, starting w/ a clean slate of code again, like they did in version 4 • Office team - strictly for all MS Office programs•MS gamer development - for the microsoft games they do have, and for dev'ing for the X-box • Finally, one uber-team strictly for bug-searching, hack/crash-testing, rather than to have the same developers that made it do it, so that there would be less "bias error"

What do you think?

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I think it's time for Microsoft to move it's headquarters to Russia so they can experience to true capitalism.