Re: Longhorn strategy a secret?

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Jeremy.Deats_at_gmail.com
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: 24 Mar 2005 08:12:17 -0800

Regarding the porting of all the products:

"...Do you have the slightest idea of how much work that would be?
These
products are absolutely massive, and porting them to Linux would be the
work
of years. And for what gain? "

Well obviously whatever desktop OS to come after Longhorn is still in
the early stages and I would guess at the 2010-2012 time frame. I'm
assuming by then the majority of Microsoft's product offerings will
have transitioned to managed code, the other compatiblity issues could
be handled by an abstraction layer (e.g. WINE -
http://www.winehq.com/).