The Future Of Our World

        Now, I think that there is enough information on the internet right now to make an assumption about what Microsoft’s future plans are, especially with the Justice Department looming over their heads with the antitrust case.  This is just a meandering of mine, so feel free to express your thoughts on this matter, whether you agree or not.  Here it goes:  Longhorn and Blackcomb will be released not as successors to each other, but as partners to accomplish Microsoft’s agenda and keep the Justice Department off their back. 

         Now I am not in charge of any development at Microsoft’s company.  If I were the Chief Operations Officer, this is what I would propose to Steve and Bill.  Blackcomb would continue to be developed under the guise of .Net.  It will be the solution that Microsoft will give to anyone wanting to fully integrate their PC with Microsoft’s schema, mainly MSN integration and Passport technology.  But, if the Government places stringent restrictions on Microsoft, then what are they going to do?  Should they drop this idea to make an Operating System “Out of the box” that fully integrates with their network?  I wouldn’t.  I would continue with my roadmap, but make an off-ramp that took another direction, specifically in the Longhorn area.

        So what would I do with Longhorn?  Well, I would develop this OS with a lot less integration in my system.  This is what I would show the Justice Department as my answer to the “other folks” operating system.  If you want to install ICQ, go ahead.  AIM, feel free.  I would not remove IE or MSN Messenger, but I would make sure that this “Alternative” operating system were available to any who wanted it, because, let’s face it, the future of Linux as a desktop OS is not looking pretty.  Microsoft needs someone to compete against them, and who else would be better competition than… yourself.  This is a better idea than investing in Apple because you still control the path your competitor takes.  But I don’t have a billion dollars, nor a million for that matter.  But mark these words, this may be our future.

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