The only surpise I find about this is that M$ waiting this long before pulling the knot on the noose. Anything M$ shows interest in or acquires has the sole end result in gaining profits for the share holders and nothing more. M$ only cares about anything pertainent or innovative insofar as it will further enhance their market value and share. If Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer were born about 100 years earlier they would have given Standard Oil and their company store a very good run for the money. Anything to do with M$ strategies can be directly associated with the Wall Street paradigm - Greed and Fear rule the market and the day. The SGI buyout is a prime example of this. M$ say the value in the technology, scarfed it up, and now are using Fear and Greed to their advantage. Pay us what we want or see you in the patent courts - the success with the Federal Governments case is fear enough of any non-M$ enterprise to submit rather than fight. So, perhaps in an off-hand way a new graphics technology will be wrought. I say this because I can't see nVidia and ATI paying M$ royalties. I can see them creating new protocals to circumvent this however. So when M$ say they're leaders in innovation - they are solely on the basis that they force others to innovate to avoid the Beast. Just MHO. Curtis Fred A. Miller wrote:
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Curtis Rey
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