Microsoft Lindows!

[Martial-law]

What if Microsoft buys Linspire and make their operating system 100% compatible with its Windows OS adding all the features and compatibilities for all the softwares. You could play all PC games, work with every application with half the price of their Windows OSes as well as renaming Linspire to Lindows? Would you buy their Linux version or stick with your present distribution?:popcorn:

[Quillz]

Linspire was originally known as Lindows and was sued.

[Ubunted]

No. HELL no.

Linux users would not buy it because it has been "tainted" (knowing MS they'd probably be right).

Windows users would not buy it because it's "that Linix thing".

[rharriso]

The only way I would buy the brand new Lindows is if they made the damn thing open source. I don't see that happening. Bill Gates is a rich man, and he didn't get that way by letting everyone one see his secret recipes.

[kellemes]

What if Microsoft buys Linspire and make their operating system 100% compatible with its Windows OS adding all the features and compatibilities for all the softwares. You could play all PC games, work with every application with half the price of their Windows OSes as well as renaming Linspire to Lindows? Would you buy their Linux version or stick with your present distribution?:popcorn:

Don't think it would take long before other distro's would offer the same advantages..
So I'd probably stick with Arch.:)

[laxmanb]

They won't. And a lot of people would jump to buy MS Linux...

[Midwest-Linux]

What Microsoft should have done is expanded on their Legacy XP develop it into a complete OS and make it available to the public for half the cost of Windows XP home. Windows XP legacy was available to a select few.

The basic idea was to be able to run XP on older computers, but it wasn't a general operating system per se. I belive that MS missed out on a tremendous opportunity to widen their scope, they could have opened the doors to many who have older computers but wanted modern features.

Consequently, yet another goof by Microsoft, the first being Vista, second being Zune, third holding back Legacy....all this seemed to open the doors for Linux and its variants to fill the void.

Ubuntu has taken off beyond anyones wild imagination, now with a simple install and some tweaking...someone could have most modern features which runs on older machines...for free with Ubuntu and its variants.


Um...thanks Microsoft....

[Dark Star]

See Linix main roots are Ubuntu, open SUSE , Red Hat and few more :) Main thing these won't convert to M$ therefore no need to worry :) I won't buy M$ oriented OS anymore :x

[raijinsetsu]

I will never buy another MS OS as long as I live. They've done such horrible things to the PC. But, if it weren't for them, we probably wouldn't have the PCs we have today.
I could go into a WWII analogy, but I think it's inappropriate.

[smiggs]

Why would they buy Linspire? It's a pretty small company with very little market share and product base. They're more likely to buy Novell, established customer base and some good proprietary tools for integrating Windows and Linux into the same network.

I'd wouldn't get into MS Linux myself unless it was free (distro *****, alert!) but it might be something corporates would look at, for a whole host of reasons; patents, integration, familarity. I'd imagine that if MS ever did go down the Linux root it would find some way of limiting the use of their application suite to MS Linux only.

[jrusso2]

Why would they buy Linspire? It's a pretty small company with very little market share and product base. They're more likely to buy Novell, established customer base and some good proprietary tools for integrating Windows and Linux into the same network.

I'd wouldn't get into MS Linux myself unless it was free (distro *****, alert!) but it might be something corporates would look at, for a whole host of reasons; patents, integration, familarity. I'd imagine that if MS ever did go down the Linux root it would find some way of limiting the use of their application suite to MS Linux only.

Microsoft would be smart to buy Novell, their stock is down in price and they would not only get a decent Linux distro but the rights to Unix.