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[John]

I would probably be just as anti MS if they were still developing the Win95 product line. I'm glad that ended with Microsoft ME.

I suppose Linux is doing to MS what MS did to Netscape back in the day.

Microsoft still has a lot of options going into the future, though, and the enormous amount of cash to back them up with whatever they do.

MS could release a free version of their software. They could acquire a linux distributor and build some sort of hybrid system with the linux kernel and compatibility with MS applications. It will be very interesting to see what they do.

MS still needs to worry about Google as well. If Google was to acquire something like Ubuntu, that could spell major trouble for MS on a much shorter timescale...