bucy wrote:
] M$ and OSS in conjunction have set the bar exceedingly high for
] Longhorn. It must be better enough than older Windows to be worth
] the upgrade (hardware as well as software!) and better enough
] than GNOME/KDE to keep people from switching to OSS for good.

I'll agree with you on the question of upgrade-worthiness. But, honestly, how many people would really consider switching to Gnome? Is that even realistic? I think more people are "switching" to OS X than to Gnome, and even that is a relatively small group operating at the margins.

Recently I read an article in a trade magazine in which the columnist lamented the fact that, despite his highest of high hopes, every new release of Gnome has in fact turned out to be worse than the previous version. It just keeps getting worse, he said.

Microsoft has more to lose to OSS on the server side, where it has never enjoyed the same dominance as in the desktop space. There, it is things like Apache and Oracle on Linux that challenge Microsoft.

RE: Microsoft Puts Date On Longhorn Server