Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

Re:Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO by herokusaki on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @05:53AM (#7183023)

If Microsoft released the source code to Windows 98 OSR2, which is effectively abandonware as far as I understand, it would be great. A lot of multimedia applications and old games would instantly become easier to preserve.

Is there still any value for Microsoft in Win9x?

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Re:Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO by Touche on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @08:13AM (#7183493)

Why not XP? The have no interest in supporting it. And millions of people still want to use it.

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Re:Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO by jhh on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @09:40AM (#7183938)

Because this would allow these millions of people to continue using this fork of XP rather than eventually buying a MS operating system.

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Re:Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO by Touche on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @09:57AM (#7184025)

But this is the attitude Microsoft needs to eliminate. The days of making money on operating systems is rapidly fading away. They already gave away Windows 8.1 as a free upgrade, so they're aware of it.

An open source XP would get many hackers interested in Windows, something they desperately need.

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Re:Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO by mjolk on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @12:27PM (#7185159)

Citation needed.

They are definitely making money on closed-source operating systems and operating system tools:

http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn...

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Re:Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO by tripzilch on Friday February 07, 2014 @09:16AM (#7196284)

> They already gave away Windows 8.1 as a free upgrade

It wasn't free--it took a couple of hours of my time!

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Re:Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO by hifier on Thursday February 06, 2014 @12:11AM (#7188843)

Umm, I don't buy Apple computers for their backlit keyboards...

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