Microsoft "Windows for Linux"

Mikkel Elmholdt
Wed, 09 May 2001 14:08:25 -0000

"Robert Kent" <no@spam.here.com> wrote in message
news:HEfK6.28541$mu1.5479758@typhoon.we.rr.com...
> -cross posted to comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine-
>
> Microsoft should consider producing "Windows for Linux". It could
be their
> own version of Wine, but it would be nearly 100% compatible with the
latest
> version of Windows. Microsoft could require that users have a retail copy
of
> Windows to make this work.
>
> It's a win-win situation. Linux users could run nearly all of the
available
> Windows applications, and Microsoft would still make money selling Windows
> licenses.

Why not just release the Office version for Linux they almost certainly has
created somewhere deep inside the Redmond compound? (just as it was rumoured
that they had ported several programs to OS/2 but held it back due to
marketing policies).

Mikkel