Red Hat downplays Novell/Microsoft deal (ArsTechnica) [LWN.net]

Red Hat downplays Novell/Microsoft deal (ArsTechnica)

Posted Nov 7, 2006 15:59 UTC (Tue) by tjc (subscriber, #137)
In reply to: Red Hat downplays Novell/Microsoft deal (ArsTechnica) by jedidiah
Parent article: Red Hat downplays Novell/Microsoft deal (ArsTechnica)

Microsoft wants to be the only game in town. Unfortunately, they don't have the engineering skills to pull it off successfully.

I would be careful about underestimating Microsoft's collective software engineering skills. They hire a lot of smart people.

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Red Hat downplays Novell/Microsoft deal (ArsTechnica)

Posted Nov 7, 2006 19:37 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

And then they waste them.

Seen anything come out of MS Research that MS has actually used yet?
(Other than Clippy, that is.)

Red Hat downplays Novell/Microsoft deal (ArsTechnica)

Posted Nov 9, 2006 23:29 UTC (Thu) by pjones (subscriber, #31722) [Link]

Of the top of my head: subpixel font antialiasing (ClearType), the "Windows Media" family of AV codecs ("wmv"), and DirectX.