Dear Mr. Gates: save Vista, open-source it

[Lou]

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS2930812631.html

[GMouse]

The way I see it, the system is too flawed to salvage, short of a complete rewrite. Too many things seem to have access deeper into the system than they should, and fixing the problem isn't so much a matter of writing patches as it is of doing a fundamental redesign of the operating system.

However, that code would be extremely useful in creating a compatibility layer to run legacy Windows applications on a different platform, be it Linux, or something else. I remember reading about a new operating system being developed at MS as a "research" endeavor, code-named Singularity. If MS would do as Apple did with OS X, and move over to a completely new system with something like Wine to provide a transition, then they would solve a great many of their problems.

Of course, I think that upper management as MS will prevent them from properly managing such a transition and that they'll completely bungle things. Again. Or that they'll still cling to their established ways in the face of a changing market and a growing quagmire of spaghetti code.

[bluesdog]

I foresee Microsoft bowing to the inevitable and releasing Microsoft Linux in 2010

Ah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, haaaah!

Hey, look at all those flying pigs!!

[sinical]

With US29.7 billion in cash and short term investments MS or Vista are not going to disappear in a hurry. Articles like this are just +pagehit crap. Look at the page, 1/2 of it is advertising..

[Fluenza]

I foresee Microsoft bowing to the inevitable and releasing Microsoft Linux in 2010

Ah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, haaaah!

Hey, look at all those flying pigs!!

[Lavene]

It's not pigs... it's Pidgins...

[Dargor]

With US29.7 billion in cash and short term investments MS or Vista are not going to disappear in a hurry. Articles like this are just +pagehit crap. Look at the page, 1/2 of it is advertising..

lol, that seems like a good way to determine how useful a web page is. ill have to start using it.