Just on the original subject line. MS does a good job trying to ban all other OS's from the Internet anyway.
For the web site: http://video.msn.com I get the message: """To use this product, you need to install free software This product requires Microsoft© Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft© Media Player 10, and Macromedia Flash 6.""" But to install that gratis-ware you'd need to be running the non-gratis Windows OS in the first place (unless you've installed the gratis-ware through Wine). We always hear about Google/Yahoo! web site acquisitions. But maybe it's this whole myopic view of MS's that everything needs to be MS that is killing them? For instance, back in the day, MS acquired Hotmail which ran on FreeBSD and continued to run that server OS for a long time. Would they have acquired YouTube which runs on Linux (http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.youtube.com) even if they could? It would definitely be an integration nightmare to have YouTube run on Windows Server 2003. Maybe MS will just ban themselves from the 'net? ~ Julian