[60537] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How much longer..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Thorne)
Wed Aug 13 18:04:32 2003
From: Tim Thorne <zen20132@zen.co.uk>
To: "McBurnett, Jim" <jmcburnett@msmgmt.com>
Cc: "Charles Sprickman" <spork@inch.com>,
"Crist Clark" <crist.clark@globalstar.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:04:01 +0100
In-Reply-To: <9BF6F06C4BC90746ADD6806746492A3348C9@msmmail01.msmgmt.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
"McBurnett, Jim" <jmcburnett@msmgmt.com> wrote:
>OK..=20
>I have lurked enough on this one..
>$60 Billion plus for microsoft..
>and 600 millions lines of code.
>thousands of employee programmers...
Problem is, you can't engage in gunfights with 5-0, rob banks or pimp
your grandmother out on a *nix. On Windows you can do this in Grand
Theft Auto 3. Its going to be OS of choice for home users (and thus a
lot of businesses as people will be familiar with it) for a long time
to come. The XP firewall was a step forward for MS. Now they need to
turn it on and block by default giving the user an intuitive interface
they can point and click at: "I want to use kazaa, e-donkey, etc".
TT
