[Coco] Microsoft files for patent on "modular operating system"

[Roger Taylor]

At 11:59 AM 1/31/2007, you wrote:
>After all the talk I've seen about how Micro$oft's latest offering
>("Vista") is more and more like Linux or the Mac OS, I'll betcha they
>are trying to squash their competition by legal legerdemain. It's
>happened before, it'll happen again. Actually, I'm wondering if the
>corp. I work for is gonna go after uSoft, insofar as that we have had a
>product line called "Vista" since the mid-80's!



I bought Vista yesterday and did the upgrade, but it also supports 
clean installs even though the box says "Upgrade".  That always 
worried me about XP.  Vista kept all of my software installed, 
network settings, etc. and just basically put the new OS in place and 
adapted in my software I had installed in XP.  Still, this is a 
bigger leap from XP to Vista than 98 to XP.  Too many things are way 
different.  Networking is awesome.  Networking SHOULD have a 
plug-n-play type concept, and if it doesn't then the other OSes are 
in the dark ages.  Our grandmas should be able to connect two 
computers together without having to go to school.  *I* should be 
able to do networking without having to ask the sales kid at Walmart 
or Office Depot.  :)  Vista seems to come to the rescue so far.  Just 
plug the darn device in and make it serve it's purpose.

Vista looks great and also uses translucent objects more, which is an 
Apple thing, and also the window frames appear to be very similar to 
RedHat Linux 9.0.  This doesn't surprise me after the Unix attack on 
Linux some years back which I always thought was a pursuasion by 
Microsoft.  Now they rub it in Linux's face by using a very similar 
windows theme.  Oh well.  They always said they were going to 
outsmart Linux.  However, I see nothing else that Windows hasn't had 
since 95 that they took from the Linux ideas.

So what is this patent attempt on a modular operating system?? ALL 
modern OSes are modular, UNLESS Microsoft is preparing for something 
that's going to blow our minds one day.


-- 
Roger Taylor