09.17.09

Sharing is Better Than Not Sharing — New Video

Posted in Free/Libre Software, GNU/Linux, Marketing, Oracle, Red Hat, Videos at 7:29 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Red Hat responds to Larry Ellison’s “We’re in it to win it”

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Microsoft’s Nathan Myhrvold in 1998: GNU/Linux is a “Serious Competitor”

Posted in Antitrust, Bill Gates, Courtroom, GNU/Linux, Oracle, Patents, Servers, Steve Ballmer, Windows at 4:28 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: “Highly confidential” memo from Microsoft’s current patent troll shows Microsoft worrying about “Linux” even over a decade ago

THE PREVIOUS Comes vs Microsoft exhibit which we dealt with showed Nathan Myhrvold ridiculing GNU/Linux and comparing it to Soviet Russia. It is no secret that Myhrvold dislikes Free software and having left Microsoft, he is now patent-trolling all sorts of companies.

The comparison between Free(dom) software and communism is always demeaning and misleading. One reader has just sent us this new piece, which he described as a “Nice article on HuffPost about Corporatists (Microsoft) vs Capitalists (Red Hat).” People must remember what capitalism and free market are about; Microsoft never complied with some of the most basic rules, which is why it spends so much time in the courtroom.

“Vinod Valloppilill, in turn, passed this to a mailing group titled “Open Source Software/Linux (Private) (Exchange DL)” (apparently a Microsoft group assigned to addressing Free software and GNU/Linux).”Today’s Comes vs Microsoft exhibit is Exhibit PX06482 [PDF], which is 5 months older than Myhrvold’s bashing of GNU/Linux that ended up as scaremongering (the sky will fall if Free software wins).

In this exhibit, Myhrvold addresses Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Paul Maritz, Eric Rudder, David Stutz, Jim Allchin, and Rick Rashid regarding GNU/Linux. Eric Rudder later passed this to Vinod Valloppilill (the author of the infamous Halloween Documents), Oshoma Momoh, and Oliver Sharp. Vinod Valloppilill, in turn, passed this to a mailing group titled “Open Source Software/Linux (Private) (Exchange DL)” (apparently a Microsoft group assigned to addressing Free software and GNU/Linux). Raju Gulabanf, perhaps someone from this mysterious group, passed it on to the “Chameleon Core Team” (chameleon is not only a SuSE mascot/symbol but also an evasive animal that’s changing its colour) and also to Jawad Khaki, Mike Nash, John Frederiksen, Jennifer Cioffi, Mike Oldham, and Jim Fredricksen. “Please handle with care,” is all he has to say about the original from Myhrvold.

So what was in Myhrvold’s highly confidential memo which needed to pass throughout the whole of Microsoft’s management, be “handle[d] with care,” and also spread among members of a group which goes under the name “Open Source Software/Linux” (apparently a group dealing with server appliances)? Let’s find out.

Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft’s CTO at the time, titled his message “Much ado about Linux”. That was in 1998 when GNU/Linux was in its still in diapers when it comes to viability on enterprise desktops.

It opens as follows:

There has been a lot of interest in Linux as a competitor to Microsoft operating systems recently and I thought I would add some comments of my own to the issue.

Here is a reference to 5 months beforehand:

A while back I wrote a memo on free software generally in which I took a fairly dim view of it.

Myhrvold was wrong in predicting that GNU/Linux would face challenges on the server (Microsoft’s patent trolling aside [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]). A year ago Steve Ballmer said publicly that “forty percent of servers run Windows, 60 percent run Linux…”

Myhrvold argues:

Even if Linux is on a path that ultimately bumps against economic realities, it might take years, or even a decade for that to occur. In the meantime it could be an important competitor, wreaking havoc with established OS providers. There are several ways to look at Linux as a competitor.

As a desktop phenomenon, I don’t think that Linux is very important. The application set is too limited, and they are too far behind. The place where Unix is very important (i.e. dangerous) is on the server.

This happens at an interesting time, because server based computing is exploding. The Internet creates a vast need for new servers at every level.

Here is an overview of areas all of which GNU/Linux has conquered to a limited extent:

There are four significant aspects of Linux as a server OS:

1. Linux as the OS for server appliances – boxes which provide a very limited set of Internet connectivity, email etc for a set of users in a small business.

2 Linux as the new Netware – i.e. a simple network OS that provides a fairly limited set of services: file, print, SMTP, HTTP and so forth. In this mode application availability is not a big deal because you have a fairly limited set of

3. Linux as a host for Oracle or another SQL dalabase.

4. Linux as a host for large scale custom server apps – i.e. Hotmail, Amazon.com etc.

Here is an admission about (Windows) NT’s problems at the time:

NT potentially has MUCH more to offer in this area. It also has some drawbacks (size, complexity, unneeded features). If we can strip out the unnecessary stuff, AND focus a lot of attention on the specific new technology for this area we could be very successful.

That said we really do have to worry about this area. But we need to temper the worry with some common sense. The whole point of a server appliance is to open up the market to users who could not afford to use a standard NT server – either for cost, or set up hassle etc. This expands the server market. It may also cannibalize some degree of current NT sales. However, it is not going to eliminate our server strategy altogether.

This is an old story. A new niche develops which is quite different from the industry mainstream. It catches on and grows like wild fire. Because it is a new area, the technology used to address it in the early stages is very simple, lean stuff. So, somebody at Microsoft panics and says OH MY GOD, THIS IS THE FUTURE, WE ARE SCREWED! They send impassioned email saying how everything we are doing is wrong because it is not like the dead simple stuff that is being used in the new niche.

There is some Linux mail like this in the last couple weeks.

In E-mail, Bill Gates identified “LUNIX” as a threat one year beforehand. A few years later he said that Linux was the “most potent operating system competitor [to Windows]” and on the same year (2001) Steve Ballmer said: “I’d put the Linux phenomenon really as threat No. 1.”

Going back to Myhrvold’s message (available in full at the bottom), we also have this about Novell:

We need to address the incremental opportunity of server appliances, by getting somebody focused VERY hard on this area – both with embedded NT but also with thinking through what technology that market segment will need. My guess is that in the long run server appliances are like Web TV- a product for people who either would not have bought a PC, or who will graduate up to it eventually (in this case, for the server rather than client).

Case 2 is, to my mind, a broader threat than the server appliance. Novell IS the server appliance company – it started with proprietary 286 based servers for PCs, almost exactly like the server appliances. Later they switched to software only – but not a general OS – just software for simple network services – which at that time was mainly file and print
service.

Fast forward to the present day – the Internet has given a new lease on life to simple server services. Instead of just file and print, the current generation of simple services are driven by the Internet – HTTP, NNTP, SMTP and various others. There is an opportunity for simple, high performance server software that runs on PC hardware and is a bit more flexible than what you can do with a server appliance. The market of strict server appliances will be smaller because most users will be unable to live with all the restrictions, but still want to use cheap PC hardware to accomplish their tasks.

If Novell had not self destructed, they should own this space, not Linux. Alternatively, it should be Novell and Linux duking it out for this market. Novell’s almost complete abdication to Windows NT means that the simple server battle will be waged largely between NT and Linux.

[...]

In the long run our flexible approach to servers with Win NT will win once again over Linux as it did over Novell. Linux will be unable to keep up with the pace of development. Once again, I want to reiterate that the way to compete here is NOT to try to adopt a Linux like stance – instead we need to add technology to improve our product for this market.

Myhrvold foresaw databases moving to GNU/Linux as an underlying platform. It didn’t take long for Oracle to make its historic big move.

Case 3 is an interesting one. Large SQL databases have taken on so many low level functions that they are almost operating systems unto themselves. As a result, products like Oracle are able to support dozens of operating systems. They can easily support Linux, and are likely to do so

Our strategy in this case is again to promote product features – such as cluster support, remote admin, ZAW and so forth to one up Linux. We have to assume that it will be a viable platform for Oracle and others, because they do so much of the work internally.

His ending makes it clear that GNU/Linux is “a serious competitor.”

So, in summary I do not mean to dismiss Linux. It is a serious competitor which we have to counter with focused development and marketing activities. Unlike our usual competitors it has a unique economic model, without a centralized business behind it. In the long run this is a liability, but it can generate a lot of enthusiasm in the short run.

The full analysis is below. It is particularly relevant because Myhrvold is now the world's largest patent troll and his hostility towards GNU/Linux may have future impact. █

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Appendix: Comes vs. Microsoft – exhibit PX06482, as text

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gNewSense Gets Rid of Mono While Mono Gets Closer to Microsoft

Posted in GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Mono, Novell, Ubuntu at 2:32 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Another GNU/Linux distribution throws Mono out; Microsoft’s foundation may adopt more from Novell

THIS omission was probably expected and now it is confirmed. [emphasis is ours]

gNewsense’s strongest point is that when you install it you are running completely free software. It was very nice to see that Mono and subsequently f-spot, tomboy et al are absent from this distro.

They would actually have to manually remove it from Ubuntu.

It makes a lot of sense, especially now that Mono’s creator works for a commercial entity of Microsoft. To whit:

Miguel snuggles closer to Microsoft

[...]

De Icaza himself has no qualms about pointing out that he was kicked off the board of the FSF for “refusing to be an active part” in what he says was a campaign to rename Linux as GNU/Linux. This sits somewhat at variance with the glowing descrption of him as an open source advocate but never mind.

[...]

The CodePlex Foundation is a commercial entity. The board, set up under the non-profit rules of Washington State, has complete control over the foundation and is also self-perpetuating, according to a detailed analysis by Andy Updegrove.

We wrote about the CodePlex Foundation in:

• OIN Receives Thanks from Many, CodePlex Foundation Receives Thumbs-Down from Many
• Miguel de Icaza Joins Microsoft
• Why Microsoft’s CodePlex Foundation is a Promoter of Proprietary Software
• Microsoft Runs Away from the Press After Trying to Have GNU/Linux Sued by Proxy
• CodePlex Foundation Loves Software Patents and What MonoTouch Means to Microsoft

Some people whom we spoke to hypothesise that Sam Ramji's departure may be followed by de Icaza’s appointment. Linux.com has this rather weird list of improper candidates for the most part (Microsoft-hostile folks)

Who Will Fill Sam Ramji’s Role as Microsoft’s Open Source Leader?

[...]

Obviously, Microsoft likely is already working on internal lists of desired candidates to take Ramji’s position, but at least one name has already popped up online inside the open source community.

Watch this list. Novell’s Zonker is in there too. █

“There is a substantive effort in open source to bring such an implementation of .Net to market, known as Mono and being driven by Novell, and one of the attributes of the agreement we made with Novell is that the intellectual property associated with that is available to Novell customers.”

–Bob Muglia, Microsoft President

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Windows Server 2003 — Just Like Windows XP — Gets Neglected by Microsoft

Posted in Microsoft, Security, Servers, Windows at 2:04 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Done so soon or gone too soon?

Summary: While Windows XP is not supported for security anymore, Windows Server 2003 development stops too

MICROSOFT has not only laid off many employees but it also lost many key developers [19], who were familiar with important code. That is one theory and possible explanation for the fact that XP is left vulnerable from now on; Microsoft has more or less given up on patching it.

“Those two releases, namely XP and Server 2003, come as a pair.”Servers are more sensitive than desktops to intrusion; their function makes them a more serious victim when compromised (affecting people whom they serve or served). It is therefore interesting to read about XP’s cousin, Windows Server 2003, never ever getting a third Service Pack like XP. This is surprising to some. Mary Jo Foley has some more details and implications for security may be tied to the fact that XP is left vulnerable. Those two releases, namely XP and Server 2003, come as a pair. Users/customers will be pressured to move to Vista or its sibling ‘edition’ for servers, which is terrible [1-16].

In other news, the Windows-only spyware from Sears is to be deleted along with the data it collected.

US retailer Sears has been ordered to destroy all the customer data it collected from a piece of online tracking software that consumer regulator the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said was unfairly used.

The FTC said that while customers had been warned that, once downloaded, software would track their browsing, it had in fact tracked browsing on third party websites, secure browsing including banking and transactions and even some non-internet computer activity.

Does it run under Wine? Hopefully not. █
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[1] Microsoft Investigating LocalSystem Access Bug

Users on a given system can elevate their access privileges to LocalSystem in Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008, Sisk explained in an e-mail. It could cause havoc by giving an authenticated user inappropriate write, delete, and change privileges.   

[2] Microsoft warns of web server flaw

The company has issued an advisory on the vulnerability, which affects Windows XP Professional SP2, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. 
 
[...]
 
“The web server is widely used on the internet, and is a top pick by web-hosting providers. We might see web-hosting providers targeted, and their clients’ websites breached.”  

[3] Microsoft investigates new Windows zero-day flaw

Bill Sisk, security response communications manager for Microsoft, said in an email Thursday evening that the flaw allows for privilege escalation from  authenticated user to LocalSystem in Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008.   

[4] Critical patches coming for Vista, Server 2008

This month’s Patch Tuesday fixes will include critical fixes for Microsoft’s  flagship operating systems, the company has warned. 

[5] Microsoft officially 425 years behind the times

It’s not just Excel and Exchange that ignore the Gregorian calendar. The Reg has also confirmed that SQL Server 2008, Windows Small Business Server, and Windows Mobile are ignorant as well.  

[6] The meaning of Microsoft Server 2008

Server 2008 looks like a bit of an odd duck – it doesn’t meet the promises made for “Longhorn” and “Blackcombe”, it’s probably neither more reliable nor more efficient than its 64 bit 2003/XP based predecessors, and unlike Vista (with which it shares some code) the kernel changes amount to rather more than just another point release in the NT schedule.    
 
[...]
 
And that, I think, reflects Microsoft’s other strategic concern: that MacOS X and Linux bracket Microsoft’s market and are both reaching out to the people in the middle – the managers and MCSE decision makers who now consider Apple too consumer oriented and Linux too technical.   

[7] Hyper-V isn’t the only Windows Server 2008 virtualization solution that’s lagging

But it’s not just Microsoft’s own Hyper-V that isn’t quite ready for prime-time. Several other virtualization products from Microsoft’s competitors and partners aren’t 100-percent enterprise-ready, either, at this point.   

[8] There’s no Windows Server 2008 SP1 in the works. Here’s why

Chalk that abnormality up to Microsoft’s ongoing attempt to more closely synchronize its Windows client and Windows server releases. Because Windows client and server are built from the same core and thus get patched with many of the same updates and fixes, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 are now “on par.”

[9] Hyper-V in Server 2008 RTM doesn’t like non-US locales

Annoying. Yes, it is mentioned in the release notes – but what if Hyper-V beta had required you to set a non-US locale at install time? Do you think Microsoft would have flagged this problem more prominently?  

[10] Microsoft cuts Windows virtualization features

The company is changing three key features of the hypervisor technology to try to stick to its schedule of releasing the technology within 180 days of completing its Windows Server “Longhorn” operating system, due to be finalized before the end of the year.

[11] Microsoft web developers branded pants

The strokers of beards and Volish nay-sayers have been claiming that reason is Windows Server 2008. They claim this on the very safe assumption that since Microsoft installed it, vole.com has been running like a condemned man  with his legs cut off on his way to his own execution.   

[12] This eWeek [on Servers]

I asked Jason about Windows Server’s newfound security: “The first time I heard about this new feature,” he said, “I thought it was clearly a response to Linux.

Windows Server 2008 isn’t quite there yet, according to Jason’s tests.

[13] Windows server URL sends you to Apple

TYPE IN windowsserver2008.com into your browser and after it thinks a bit, it takes you straight to the Apple site.

[14] What will run on Windows Server 2008 — and when

Are we in for a Windows-Vista-like experience, where even some of Microsoft’s own applications didn’t work with its new operating system for weeks, if not months?  

[...]
 
A number of Microsoft server apps that won’t support Windows Server 2008 until the latter half of 2008, when service packs providing Server 2008 compatibility are released.  

[15] Windows Server 2008 Delayed, Again

Already, Microsoft delayed SQL Server 2008 availability until later in 2008, even though the software launches with the new version of Windows Server. 

[16] It’s Official: An Unofficial Delay

Microsoft isn’t characterizing the launch announcement as a ship delay, which is possible because of the “2008″ nomenclature and the likelihood that the software will be released to manufacturing this year. My guess is that will happen around November, unless there are unforeseen development problems.   

[17] More than half of Microsoft Vista needs re-writing

Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new Vista operating system is set to be rewritten…

[18] Microsoft admits Vista screwed – report

Vista SP1 is code named “Fiji”, presumably after a pretty looking island which is paralysed by coups.

In a statement regarding the service pack Microsoft admits that Vista has “high impact” problems.

[19] MS Insider: The Office Crew Isn’t Smart Enough to Supplant Real Windows Developers

“With Alchin retiring, MarkL and MarkZ, two of the most talented architects in MS already having left, the picture gets really ugly for the Windows division,” my friend claimed, and the BV’s core team members, Ian McDonald, Jack Mayo, Todd Wanke, Clyde Rodriguez and others are starting to connect the dots.
 
[...]

He concluded ominously. “A trainwreck of biblical proportions looms. Pick a good seat on the sidelines, trainwrecks this large take awhile to complete. Vista may be the last MS OS for some time to come, especially if Cutler decides to play hardball.”

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09.16.09

IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: September 16th, 2009

Posted in IRC Logs at 6:32 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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Enter the IRC channel now

To use your own IRC client, join channel #boycottnovell in FreeNode.

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Links 16/09/2009: New Unbreakable, Berkeley DB

Posted in News Roundup at 6:25 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day

Jim Hogg teaches GNU Linux to high school kids 06 (2008)

Digital Tipping Point is a Free software-like project where the raw videos are code. You can assist by participating.

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CodePlex Foundation Loves Software Patents and What MonoTouch Means to Microsoft

Posted in Apple, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Mono, Novell at 11:29 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Hallllo… Mono?

Summary: One more look at the CodePlex Foundation and what Novell is doing for .NET other than lending a VP to CodePlex

THE news about the CodePlex Foundation previously got covered in:

• OIN Receives Thanks from Many, CodePlex Foundation Receives Thumbs-Down from Many
• Miguel de Icaza Joins Microsoft
• Microsoft Turncoat Quits
• Why Microsoft’s CodePlex Foundation is a Promoter of Proprietary Software
• Microsoft Runs Away from the Press After Trying to Have GNU/Linux Sued by Proxy

Here is a second take from Jason at Mono-Nono.

To me, when someone starts heralding Microsoft – it instantly raises astroturf / shill suspicions in my mind. Automatic acceptance and praise not only puts aside natural and justified skepticism, but it also skips right over “wait and see” into fanboy-land. I do not see how that is an intellectually honest position to take.

The criticisms of Andy Updegrove have already reached the press, but here is his original post, which also sheds light on the role of software patents.

Q: What about the CodePlex mission? How does that sound?

A: I had to smile a bit when I listened to the (scripted) interview at the site. The premise seems to be that (a) “some companies” have “culture” problems that keep them out of open source projects, or are “uneasy” with the “intellectual property” rules of open source foundations; (b) that “more companies” would participate “as much as they should” if better practices, and intellectual property tools, were developed; and (c) that a place is needed to bring “such companies” and open source developers together. It’s clear that all of these statements would be true if you substituted “Microsoft” for the phrase, “some companies,” but I haven’t noticed that any of these factors has been a problem for most other software vendors.

This slide from the interview will give you the flavor:

· Commercial software developers currently under-participate in open source projects
– Cultural differences
– Differing development methodologies
– Differing perspectives on copyrights and patents
– Differing perspectives on licensing
· No other foundation is dedicated to changing that situation

The responses to Bruce Byfield on the subject are interesting. Steve Stites claims that “Microsoft also needs to pay compensation for the damage done by their multimillion dollar attack on Open Source.” Others — like Abe — just want Microsoft out of the way.

There are also apologists like Matt Asay, who wrote:

It’s also why I welcome, not reject, Microsoft’s attempts to open itself to open source.

Asay also invited them to OSI where damage to reputation was caused. Need anyone else be shown Microsoft floating anti-GNU/Linux patents for others to sue with [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]? On the other hand, Asay still understands that Microsoft is up to no good with his previous employer, Novell. Separately he writes:

This isn’t to whitewash all that Microsoft has not done well vis-a-vis open source (e.g., I’m not a fan of its patent-licensing arrangements, including the “interoperability” agreement with Novell), but clearly, Microsoft has been actively adopting open source as part of its business strategy.

Novell is so proud of Miguel de Icaza (for helping Microsoft) that its PR department publicises this. Well, de Icaza has also expanded Microsoft's monopoly to the iPhone — something that Novell brags about as well, using promotion-tied budgets. There is a press release bragging about it and it’s titled “Novell Releases First Solution to Build iPhone Applications Using C# and Microsoft .NET Languages.”

Never mind the implications, eh? Here is the Windows/Microsoft de facto press raving about it because it’s big promotion for Windows and .NET, not just Novell and Mono. Longtime Windows authors seem enthusiastic and so are sites which include ITWire, PC World (IDG), Campus Technology, Ars Technica, and others.

Good news for Microsoft; for GNU/Linux? Not so much. █

“Every line of code that is written to our standards is a small victory; every line of code that is written to any other standard, is a small defeat.”

–James Plamondon, Microsoft Technical Evangelist. From Exhibit 3096; Comes v. Microsoft litigation [PDF]

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Vista 7 Hype is Torn Apart, One ‘Feature’ at a Time

Posted in GNU/Linux, Marketing, Vista, Vista 7, Windows at 9:00 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: The next version of Windows Vista gets publicly criticised, but Microsoft will not take this lying down

Linux already does multi-touch, and it does it very well. In order to enable this, however, not only is software support required (it’s built into Linux) but hardware support too. In fact, the whole hype about multi-touch on the desktop is to do with touchscreens, which are an old technology from the 1980s.

The facts suggest that Vista 7 has no “killer feature”, except perhaps the ability to run XP, which hardly counts as a feature per se. Just being “not as bad as Vista” does not imply that Vista 7 is wonderful. That’s what Microsoft wants the world to believe though, and highly-paid PR agencies were hired to impose this illusion. They are specifically assigned to protect the image of Vista 7.

Here is a new post from ZDNet, which is titled “Windows 7 Needs Liposuction.” It says:

The complaint I have with Windows OS that Linux addresses to a certain extent, is that I can strip out or NOT install big chunks of software that is more rightly defined as application layer software instead of the bloat the has driven Windows into the ground performance-wise.

Scan the comments for potential Microsoft perception management [1, 2] in action (maybe just a Microsoft partner). They seem to be attacking any critic of Vista 7 with a load of text that ridicules the author and/or pitches all sorts of selling points. They hijack the conversation to guard the brand. Even Microsoft employees are instructed to comment in ZDNet under false identities.

Moments ago in the news we also found a rebuttal to Microsoft’s touchscreen nonsense, which it tries to attribute to Vista 7. Microsoft is extolling the virtues of a hardware feature enabled by OS support that GNU/Linux already has (unlike Vista 7, which is not released yet).

Windows 7 touch: Dead on arrival

[...]

Whereas Apple quietly added touch to Mac OS X Leopard a couple years back, Microsoft has hyped its Microsoft Surface technology for more than a year. Beneath this hype has been the suggestion that, with Windows 7, a touch revolution is brewing.

Or maybe not.

[...]

Here are the key concerns that make PC touch useless for most people — and that will continue to plague any notion of a “touch revolution” on the desktop PC for years to come.

The largest volume of Microsoft AstroTurfing will start next month. It is always the case when Microsoft has a major release of Windows (especially and more so with Vista), so experience simply suggests so. It’s strategically crucial because Microsoft pressures businesses and OEMs to blindly adopt early. In addition, Microsoft will improperly count “sales” of Vista 7 to create hype. Whether those lies are capable of being reported to (and handled by) the ASA is another matter. █

“[W]e’re not going to have products that are much more successful than Vista has been.”

–Steve Ballmer, a year ago

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