Re: Comment on Microsoft's leaked memos, and the unofficial end of Microsoft 'Trustworthy Computing'

[Matthew Murphy <mattmurphy () kc rr com>]

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Dinis Cruz wrote:
> Why don't we have an IIS 7.0 for windows NT? and IE 7.0 for windows
> 2000? an Windows Firewall for all windows under the sun?
>
> And if Microsoft changed fair prices for them (for example a fiver ($5)
> for IE7) I'm sure they would have enough buyers to justify the
> investment (humm... 200 million users * $ 5 a pop is 1 $billion), and
> (probably more important to Microsoft) they could give them for free for
> the companies that subscribe to the 'Microsoft software assurance'
> licensing model.
>
> Here would be a nice positive model which would create more secure
> software, give the users a better deal AND keep the shareholders happy :)

We don't have an IIS 7 for NT because Microsoft builds its applications
atop new system functionality.  It also offers them a way to muscle
their product into a market.

Do you think IE's user count would be anywhere near 200 million if
Microsoft hadn't made the marketing-oriented decision to integrate the
browser into the Windows operating system?

Aside from that, Microsoft would have a hell of a time charging for what
is now legally an "operating system component" as decided by the U.S.
courts.  The government's lawyers would be all over them like a pack of
wild dogs.

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