From: Conor Daly (conor.daly at domain met.ie)
Date: Thu 28 Jun 2001 - 13:23:23 IST
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:50:21PM +0100 or thereabouts, David Murphy wrote:
> Quoting <20010628122215.A19358 at domain blackstar.co.uk>
> by Wesley Darlington <wesley at domain blackstar.co.uk>:
>
> > It didn't keep hardware cheap: it *made* hardware cheap. Microsoft
> > brought computing to the masses and didn't try to control the
> > hardware platform: that brought us *incredible* innovation in
> > desktop *commodity* hardware.
>
> Actually, MS do excercise quite a bit of control over the PC hardware
> manufacturers, through things like the PC<year> standards, and the
> WHQL program. Microsoft had an interest in the success of the PC
> because they had a lock on the OS for it - not because it was an open
> platform.
That's where the battle will move next I'd say. Pressure will go on the
hardware manufacturers who provide linux drivers and they'll find it
difficult to get "Designed for Windows" certification. It'll be interesting
then to see whether they'll care or not ("windows compatible" on the box may
be enough for them).
Conor
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