Love it; hate it, indifferent to it.

Microsoft technology is all around you, and if they get their way, even more so. Not that I am saying that’s a bad thing... but it is obvious from today that they have designs on every technology market.

The only threat I can see to MS (no offence, but Oracle & Sun are losing ground) , is free software. How can you compete with something given away for free ????

The sad thing is that they can, because despite all the hype, Linux is getting bloated, complicated & its incompatible with half the hardware around. (Sure blame the hardware guys for that, no market, no drivers)... Chicken and Egg, but the end result will be the same no Linux.

You may think I am being negative on Linux, I am not. I keep trying it every major kernel release, hoping that it will be the free nirvana that it is billed as.... half way through having to recompile my kernel to get another experimental driver working I scratch my head and wonder what the heck I am doing and switch back to XP.

XP, now there is a thing, not a bad operating system, apart from a few security holes here or there...

Service Pack 2 will fix all evils in the world allegedly, it works and everything runs and all recent hardware has drivers. It does what it says on the tin and well. Sure they could do better with moving drivers away from the kernel into ring 1 , or whatever and make it more stable , but it will probably happen in the next release of windows.

Where was I, (iam rambling), oh yeah Linux has little chance of being any more than a "hobbyist OS", the Mac of the X86 world. (Don’t flame me, I know it runs on a lot more than X86). Let’s face it though right now, the X86 is where it matters.

Where was i , oh yes Tech-Ed more tomorrow, going to a session on open source, that should be interesting.