Very interesting article.... It occurs to me that since so few PC's are sold with Linux preloaded, and new XP computers will have their discs formatted in NTFS, within 2 or 3 years Linux will be squeezed out. Consumers will be unable to try out Linux even if they wanted to. Most people are not going to risk losing their windows data by having to reformat their entire disc, and may be worried by Microsofts product activation policy, that they might not be able to go back to windows again without a severe hassle if they were to try it.
I'm sure there are good technical reasons why NTFS is used by XP instead of FAT32, but its jolly convenient for Bill that a by effect is to shut out the last remaining competion on the x86 desktop. Derek On Thursday 25 October 2001 6:39 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Here are some interesting articles I found regarding Microsoft's misuse of > monopoly power: > > http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1115/byt20010824s0001/ > http://www.infoanarchy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/10/23/17629/221
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