Microsoft "Windows for Linux"

Nigel Feltham
Wed, 09 May 2001 13:41:09 -0000

Robert Kent wrote:

> -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.
>

It would also be the start of the downfall of the company - when users
switch to Linux running a Microsoft compatibility layer they will realise
how crap MS's code really is and eventually switch all the applications to
native Linux software written by someone else ( openoffice or Koffice maybe
instead of MS office) and what would MS be able to do then.