[LUAU] Its time to simply ban Windoze machines from the Internet

[Julian Yap]

Just on the original subject line.

MS does a good job trying to ban all other OS's from the Internet
anyway.

For the web site:
http://video.msn.com

I get the message:
"""To use this product, you need to install free software

This product requires Microsoft© Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft© Media
Player 10, and Macromedia Flash 6."""

But to install that gratis-ware you'd need to be running the non-gratis
Windows OS in the first place (unless you've installed the gratis-ware
through Wine).


We always hear about Google/Yahoo! web site acquisitions.  But maybe
it's this whole myopic view of MS's that everything needs to be MS that
is killing them?  For instance, back in the day, MS acquired Hotmail
which ran on FreeBSD and continued to run that server OS for a long
time.

Would they have acquired YouTube which runs on Linux
(http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.youtube.com)
even if they could?  It would definitely be an integration nightmare to
have YouTube run on Windows Server 2003.

Maybe MS will just ban themselves from the 'net?

~ Julian