Things are getting strange ...

[Kees]

AMIGEN mailinglist:

"Yes, Microsoft has asked us to demo DE and some of the developer applications running on various devices in their booth.

Gary"

[teo]

Resistance is futile, hehehe.

Dont know if its worth speculating yet, but perhaps in time we will see IE on amigaDE, standards, sweet.

btw, I stumbled accros the ports page of www.mozilla.org and found there's a DE version on the way, really sweet...calling all coders, help out!

[Chathurawind]

even tho i hate M$ would be kewl if they did put their name on it and pumped loadsa cash into it - mebbe not amiga`s style of business,b ut i think the ppl behind amiga ATM could do with some big money  

[Chathurawind]

yeah, business is business. Who cares if it's MS or Apple or Nokia to put money in Amiga? All we want is a shiny Amiga name and a new bike for McEven :-) (and i want amigade and amigaos4!!!)

[JetRacer]

I quote Solid Snake from the PS1 game Metal Gear Solid: "This is bad.."

It's never a good sign when M$ shows interest in something. They only do that when they want to aquire and align or use the "embrase and extend" strategy.

I hope they refused and claimed it was not supposed to be on the American market anyway. Then we might actually see software/hardware beyond AOS4.0 and A1.

[Maddestman]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

[JetRacer]

And oh, I forgot: sue without any real reason until opposition is broke strategy.

Them might claim that Intent is a reverse-enginered version of .net.

[Elektro]

I am sorry but this is like playing with the devil.

Most if not all companies that deal with M$ get burned sooner or later...

[JetFireDX]

I have to agree that this cannot be good for Amiga to have caught the eye of MS. After what I read about this .NET they are working on, it sounds suprisingly similar to DE. If any kind of sharing of tech goes on between MS and Amiga, MS will surely double cross Amiga just as they did with SEGA and the Dreamcast. Too bad to, since Dreamcast died a premature death. But look at it, SEGA teams with MS to use DirectX and WindowsCE for Dreamcast. Dreamcast isn't out half a year and MS drops SEGA like a bad habit to announce that they are working on XBox. MS learns what the competition has up its sleeves by getting chummy with them, then when they have enough info, they attempt to smash it with their own. Now look at SEGA...they have been relagated to an Arcade hardware and console software only company, releasing their games on PS2 and my god on the NINTENDO too! What the hell is going on? DON'T work with MS! NO NO NO!

[The_Beast]

i agree, this is bad, very bad, Amiga better watch its back......  :-?

[The_Beast]

dont let bill of borg bully you around... :-x

[Chathurawind]

hhm mybe they want steal ideas ok worse they want to steal to steal
the software and look how it is done remember M$ is never a vriend
remeber!!: you must know your enemy beter than you know your self!!!

[Chathurawind]

this is BAD!!!!!

[Chathurawind]

the next thing will be Microslug buying up Amiga and shuting it down!!!!
as they do with anything they touch!

[Chathurawind]

does any of this really matter?

What if MS pulls their tricks on Amiga?

It's not like Amiga has been honest and open with the real community. It's not like Tao is not into Intellectual Property Generation. It's not like fleecy hasn't always been one wanting to own and control the property of others. It's not like Bill McE would be out of a job (he can always truck XBOXes across country...

So what if MS absorbs Amiga, they already have had access to all the Intellectual Property of the Amiga we have always known, thanks to Gateway and MS licensings.

MS certainly doesn't need Amiga for any of the Amiga technology we have known, so they must be interested what? NDAs?

Think about it!  MS is going to find out what eve the Amiga community doesn't know???

lol