Who the heck *is* that writer anyway? Is he an M$ paid flunky who's even farther behind on knowing when an April fools joke is supposed to happen than the guys at MSN UK?
Yes, David Coursey has no Di... Oh, wait. Yes, David Coursey is an M$ stooge. He replaced Jesse Berst right after M$ and ZD publishing partnered up. Some of the stuff that comes out of his mouth is the most ludicrious stuff you can imaging. And he's shamelessly an M$ plant trying to seem impartial - at which he does a terrible job and is very transparent. M$ couldn't do a version of Linux. For one they may not have to release the code for their in-house products, e.g. IE, Outluck, etc. but any changes they did to GPL code would have to be presented. And in making the GPL'ed code compat with M$ code (for again Outluck, etc) the OSS/GPL programmers would get incite into M$ codes and hooks. This is all the OSS guys need to make it possible for M$ programs to work in Linux and would essentially cut M$ out of the picture. Why, because the minute M$ products run on Non-M$ OS such as Linux then why would you need Windows. Can you Say IE 5.5/6.0 WMplayer that never die or become obsolete because M$ can't mandate upgrades to new versions with more features that are really M$ control codes and all the other programs such as PhotoShop, etc, etc, etc, in Linux. So, get a copy of IE, a GPL sourceforge program to install it, and load up. Let's see, M$Linux = $99.00 you probably get one cd and an EULA that conflicts grossly with the GPL. Or, you get SuSE with all the works, IE/Outluck with source forge installer at about $80 and copy it around every desktop you can get your hands on. Then M$ runs around trying to get the BSA to enforce EULA on IE/Outlook - wouldn't that be interesting. Cheers, Curtis.