On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Stewart C. Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-03-31 09:53 PM, Giles Orr wrote: >> >> Or, as a friend of mine put it, 'the concept of "embrace, extend, >> extinguish" hasn't been lost.' > > I don't think the target of MS's extinguishment is us. It's very hard to > compete with the nebulous world of Linux. You can't create a business > plan to attack something that has so many facets. > > MS can, however, attack Apple. Apple destroys Microsoft on the desktop. > I'm not talking about the business desktop, where Windows is still > solid, but in the notebooks you see people using on the road, in coffee > shops, in colleges, and so on. Microsoft wants a piece of that “Creative > Class”† action, and the more of it they can funnel onto Office 365 and > Azure subscriptions, the better. The move to a no-charge Windows licence > is like Gillette handing out free razors. Apple and Microsoft can make > far more money on services than they ever could hawking hardware and > software. >
You may have found the dragon behind the facade!! MS thinks it needs to own all aspects - - - what is interesting is most companies that have done these kind of shenanigans merely developed their demise! Dee --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
