[simonblack]

Remember the days of Mini-Microsoft? They were a group who tried to improve Microsoft from the inside. They weren't successful.

I once tried to convince them that Microsoft should 'do an Apple' by using Linux under the hood the same way that Apple used BSD under the hood.

That would free up a lot of the programming workload of Windows by putting it onto the Linux community, and allow Microsoft to concentrate on the Windows Desktop alone, the same way that Apple concentrated on the Apple Desktop while leaving BSD to the BSDers.

I still believe this would be a win-win for Microsoft and its users alike.

However, Microsoft has always been about the Benjamins, and not about good things for its users.