JaggedSac on 08 June 2008
| GlingGling said: .NET works on Linux/Mac. Mono is a very active project. Moonlight, by the developers of Mono, is also in development to bring cross-platform compatibility to Silverlight. We're going to see Microsoft more and more in cross-platform situations. Even MS will tell you their OS isn't as omnipresent as it used to be. Like Google they aren't stupid and they'll evolve to maintain their presence as a leading software company. Take a look at XNA (opening up console game development to indies) and the .net microframework (.net/C# in a 250-500kb footprint for microcontrollers). They learned from Google what it means to diversify. |
Nicely said. Windows has had the problem of trying to maintain backwards compatibility with businesses software. They know this, we know this, and it is a problem. Luckily virtualization is becoming more common place and is likely to be the solution to their problem. They can now develop a new OS without having to worry about compatibility issues and make it much thinner.
