Microsoft-235

  • Posted By Justin Gehtland on May 15, 2007
That's the isotope of Microsoft that goes nuclear and wipes out everything.
Comments
  1. Gavin Stark — May 15, 2007 @ 06:59 PM

    John Dvorak posited that Napster didn’t get popular outside the underground MP3 swapping scene until the RIAA came along and tried to sue them out of the P2P world. (Of course they were successful in this, but that detracts from my argument so we’ll conveniently overlook that) By jumping up and down and screaming (in the courts and thus the press) the world caught on to the idea of MP3 sharing.

    Perhaps the same will happen here. Will John Q. Public say “Hmm, Microsoft says this Linux thing copied all their good stuff. What? Its free? I don’t have to pay insane amounts for Vista? It will run nicely on my older hardware?! Let me try this out.” Perhaps John Q. will find Ubuntu, Firefox and Open Office make a good enough replacement for XP/Vista, IE, Office on that old P3 desktop sitting in the den. Perhaps the next time the office IT guy says the word Linux he’ll say “I tried that at home and it looked good.” instead of staring with that deer-in-the-headlights look. Thus yielding fewer Vista or Server 2003 installs.

    Microsoft-235 might turn out be the isotope that proves to be more detrimental to Microsoft than to the rest of the universe.