[ILUG] Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo!

Michael Watterson watty at eircom.net
Fri Feb 1 23:51:36 GMT 2008


Paul O'Malley wrote:
> Nick Murtagh wrote:
>> Nick Murtagh wrote:
>>> You're thinking of PowerShell aka Monad which was in Windows Server
>>> 2003.
>>
>> Sorry, I meant will run on Windows 2003. It's included in 2008.
>>
> and so I was wondering where the GNU/Linux reference was in the 
> current implementation of this thread and then it struck me
>
> (A) this is threaded
> (B) by mentioning GNU and Linux on the one line I remove the other stuff
> (C) see (B) it gets more relevant
> (D) feature slips - what the others are great at
> (F) Monad is nearly like the spelling of Mono
> (G) Shell was mentioned once
> (H) Server was mentioned once
> (I) 2003 was mentioned twice - iirc the year that SCO tried to suid 
> (pun) IBM
> (J) 2008 - cal tells me we are there already!
> No doubt KL can do much better with this material. ;-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul
And MS touch will kill Yahoo, giving world Domination to the Open Source 
/ Linux  devouring Google
MS shares down already and I can hear the laughter from the Googleplex.

-- 
Mike




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