Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 29, 2003 02:16 AM
Well, they supposedly do have $43B cash on their balance sheet, growing at nearly $1B a month, thanks to the Windows and Office monopolies. What they don't have is time. And you can't think of throwing 5,000 programmers at overhauling or rewriting Windows without a mental picture of Fred Brooks popping up and wagging his finger. There's always the "Microsoft will move to BSD like Apple did" theory. Somehow I doubt that will happen. They'll just keep coming up with new security/robustness initiatives and marketectures.
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Re:angling for corporate handouts
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 29, 2003 02:16 AM#