"We can beat Linux without Longhorn..."
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From vuenet: Microsoft: We can beat Linux without Longhorn
Microsoft does not need Longhorn to compete with the growing threat from Linux, according to one of the software giant's senior executives.
In an exclusive interview with vnunet.com Martin Taylor, Microsoft's general manager of platform strategy, said that, even without its next-generation Windows operating system, Microsoft can still fight off the penguin.
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"People say: 'Don't you need Longhorn to compete with Linux?' I say nothing could be further from the truth. From an innovation perspective [and] technical perspective, I've got everything I need today for a value platform."
According to Taylor, Microsoft is radically re-engineering Windows with Longhorn. "We are re-architecting the messaging bus, the interface, storage system and also providing avenues and paths for other products to take advantage of the operating system, such as WinFS, Indigo and Avalon," he said.
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Microsoft hired open source software engineers to run a research centre of 120 servers running "every Linux distribution". The purpose of this centre, said Taylor, is to "help our product groups have line of sight when they need to know things about Linux, to help our product road maps".
"to help our product road maps"... God knows they need it.
From vuenet: Microsoft: We can beat Linux without Longhorn
Microsoft does not need Longhorn to compete with the growing threat from Linux, according to one of the software giant's senior executives.
In an exclusive interview with vnunet.com Martin Taylor, Microsoft's general manager of platform strategy, said that, even without its next-generation Windows operating system, Microsoft can still fight off the penguin.
<snip>
"People say: 'Don't you need Longhorn to compete with Linux?' I say nothing could be further from the truth. From an innovation perspective [and] technical perspective, I've got everything I need today for a value platform."
According to Taylor, Microsoft is radically re-engineering Windows with Longhorn. "We are re-architecting the messaging bus, the interface, storage system and also providing avenues and paths for other products to take advantage of the operating system, such as WinFS, Indigo and Avalon," he said.
<snip>
Microsoft hired open source software engineers to run a research centre of 120 servers running "every Linux distribution". The purpose of this centre, said Taylor, is to "help our product groups have line of sight when they need to know things about Linux, to help our product road maps".
"to help our product road maps"... God knows they need it.
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>>We are re-architecting the messaging bus, the interface, storage system and also providing avenues and paths for other products to take advantage of the operating system, such as WinFS, Indigo and Avalon," he said.
The new messaging bus IS Indigo, the new interface IS Avalon, and the new storage system IS WinFS. While these are each cool in their own way, they are not worthy of mentioning twice each on the features list. (I am bonkers for Avalon as a concept, and regret only that everything I've ever done before needs to be thrown away in order to make any use of it. Then, it's not like I've never had to start from scratch before -- CP/M to DOS to Win16 to Win32 to Web to Java Rich Client to.....)
Posted by Stan Rogers At 13:50:50 On 30/09/2004 | - Website - |