No they shouldn't be allowed, just like AT&T wasn't supposed to step outside the Telco business. They have been shown guilty of monopolistic practices and they should be forced to tune down, not up!!

Jesse Kline a �crit:
Sure they should be allowed to develop networking products. Of course I wouldn't
recomend buying any of them :-). The thing that bothers me is that MS made their
billions by being a software only company. This is what seperated them from the
IBMs and Apples of the day. It now seems that they are trying to get into the
hardware market with mice, keyboards, xboxes, networking equipment, etc. I'm
just wondering if it will work out for them now. As for what OS they run, I
think it would be funny if they ran Linux or BSD, but more likely they will run
on some sort of WinCE OS.

Jesse

Quoting Cameron Nikitiuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


Is it just me or is this just wrong?  Should she guys actually be allowed
to
develop networking products?  I can't but wonder if they operate similar to
other networking products (D-Link, Linksys, NetGear) and use a web
interface.  If that's the case, I know other products tend to use some sort
of Linux derivative for there OS (at least that's the way it is with the
big
toys - Lucent, Nortel, WatchGuard, etc.).  So wouldn't that be interesting
if Microsoft had someone build the products for them, and that manufacturer
used a Linux OS for its base.

Just sort of babbling here...but I am finished now.

Regards,

Cameron Nikitiuk







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