On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 09:35 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > | > | >I'm pretty sure that you are answering the question > | >"Why did Microsoft buy Connectix?" > | > | The answer to that one is actually "To provide a > | development environment for Windows CE (and later XP > | Embedded)" (the emulator that's used for development > | in those environments is VirtualPC). Thank you for > | playing. > > TILT > > No need to buy a company just to use its > product in your development shop. > > Please insert additional coins.
I'd thought it was so Microsoft could offer an emulation-based migration path to all the apps that would be broken by Longhorn. MS has since backed off on the new filesystem proposal that would have been the biggest source of breakage (if rumors of a single-rooted, more *nix-like filesystem turned out to be true). -- Roy M. Silvernail is [EMAIL PROTECTED], and you're not "It's just this little chromium switch, here." - TFS SpamAssassin->procmail->/dev/null->bliss http://www.rant-central.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
