Things are getting strange ...

[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.

[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.

[JetRacer]

publied: As stated millions of times before M$ does not have it's own ideas, they just look around and pick and choose from others to get the good pieces. As we've all seen(?), the methodology is flawed.

Darin: Until the dragon spots you catching a free ride..

Elektro: We have already passed that stage already; M$ have .net.

Housey: "...AAAND IT'S ORGANIC!"  (Quote from the cartoon Duckman)

teotwin: Writing "industry standard" in the same sentence as you write M$?! Shame on you. Everyone else seems to know the fact that M$ obeys just as many standards as they have original ideas in their products. M$ not making much money of Win?! I quote from the movie A Fish Called Wanda: "Hi, you had an IQ-test and the results came back negative." Win alone probably gain a profit way beyond my countrys GNP. They probably earn more money selling office, but it's not exactly pocketchange either. I have nothing agaist you, you just earned this one.

Anonymous: Rape this, rape that. Rape yourself. SGIs UMA is no secret and SEGA knew who they where dealing with. SEGA don't exactly get poorer by selling software for X-box. Wonder if Marvel can sue M$ for a buck of two (X-Men)? SEGA-grodor (joke on Swedish, sorry for being non-intl)

BillyBobsonsirjonny: Hehehe! Couldn't help myself. Please don't shoot me!

And to potential commenters: Don't write something like "You can't avoid M$ if you're in the software buissness". Just don't go there...

[JetRacer]

Housey: I'm just teasing.

teotwin: sorry, I was a bit sleepy when I wrote that. I thought you meant that M$ followed standards and AOS not. If I had payed attention I would have noticed that you wrote *Industry Standard(tm). And I still claim that they don't loose money lessing windows =)   I speak of experience when I say: You got my sympathy (I had a wisdom tooth surgically removed once -not a nice experience).

*Industry Standard(tm) is a M$ Trademark.    ;-)