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• grendel baggins

  2008-04-07 04:42:53

  Just curious if you remember hearing about this a few years ago:
  
  http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2003/08/07/windows-is-microsofts--trojan-horse
  
  Aside from the main focus of the article, which I'm also curious if you remember reading about, here you go:
  
  "Early this year, Microsoft snagged Connectix VM technology, which was one of the few products that allowed OS/2 users to run 32-bit Windows operating systems in a window under OS/2, effectivelly killing its OS/2-based windows virtualisation product, called Virtual PC 5.1 for OS/2. Without a product to sell, its CEO admitted that would close."
  
  Hmmm?

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-04-07 05:01:19

  They try similar tricks against GNU/Linux. First of all, see the Corel story, which is summarised here:
  
  http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/25/corel-is-microsoft-friend/
  
  Microsoft also 'brought' Xen via Citrix. Citrix seems very disinterested in Xen virtualisation, even openly (it said "we are not a virtualisation company", IIRC). It claims that it spent $0.5 billion for the brand name (of a company with about 1000 paying customers). We wrote a lot about this before and we recently posted this one:
  
  http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/27/xen-windows-citrix/
  
  This pattern is familiar. Microsoft buys companies in order to shut them down or change their goals.