halloween papers

In 1998 two Microsoft internal memos were made public. These memos outline the threat to Microsoft of open source software and the possible steps MS could take to counter-act these threats. It is now 6 years later and it is interesting to compare what has actually happend to what was predicted.

One key point in MS's strategy was to embrace and extend open standards so as to tye users to Windows. MS has not been too sucessfull in doing this which implies they may have difficulties in maintaining their grip on the IT market. Also they seem to be losing developer mind share.

Two links to these papers are:
http://www.softpanorama.org/OSS/halloween.shtml
http://winnetou.lcd.lu/halloween.html