Insane prediction of the year: Microsoft will merge with Apple

[SysAdmin]

Now that would truly be insane. It might give the Amiga a fighting chance as people would look for new alternatives.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/windows/23254/insane-prediction-year-microsoft-will-merge-apple

Here is the shocking video.

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/2913511633001/fitz-gerald-apple-and-microsoft-may-merge-in-5-10-years/

[Iggy]

Nope, I won't even look at that one.
Its silly.
AND the SEC would never allow it.

[bloodline]

Even before the obvious, I just can't see what advantage it would have for either company!

[XDelusion]

Sure why not.... anti-monopoly laws (the laws that protect us from Corporate Communism) are being trampled upon and eroded every day.

[B00tDisk]

Reminds me of one of my signature lines from back in the day: The most feared merger: FBIBM.  

(except...that's kind of happened with the NSA and every tech company )

[persia]

It could easily be argued that with Android as competition it wouldn't really create a monopoly.  Ubuntu Linux tablets are due out next year.  The times they are a changing....

[gertsy]

It could easily be argued that with Android as competition it wouldn't really create a monopoly.  Ubuntu Linux tablets are due out next year.  The times they are a changing....

The are, sounds like standard crap fare to me. It would be ironic though seeing as Microsoft pumped so much dosh into the Apple bailout in '97. Perhaps that was a deposit?

Ubuntu Linux tablets. Sounds like a great idea.

[Nlandas]

I doubt that this will happen or even could. If it did though, I'm done. I'm finding a new career and I'll be running nothing but Open Source operating systems and software from that point on.

[persia]

The are, sounds like standard crap fare to me. It would be ironic though seeing as Microsoft pumped so much dosh into the Apple bailout in '97. Perhaps that was a deposit?

Ubuntu Linux tablets. Sounds like a great idea.

What would be more difficult would be Microsoft/Google.  That would provide a domination that would be scary.

[Iggy]

It could easily be argued that with Android as competition it wouldn't really create a monopoly.  Ubuntu Linux tablets are due out next year.  The times they are a changing....

No they are not (answered on an Android tablet).