Longhorn's Real Job: Trying to Gore Linux

That is quite a powerful statement from Steven. I mean, it definitely sounds just about right, putting M$ right back into the shoes of Nurv from "Antitrust", but it still is ballsy.

However, I will tell you this...the more M$ lives up to this bully, lock-in attitude, the more the argument to turn away from Windows grows stronger. I hope that there are enough Steven's out there to keep up the fight.

While the message is every bit alarmist I think the alarm needs to be sounded. This is too powerful to ignore. I say build a better filesystem than WinFS, make it cross platform capable (make it such that it can replace WinFS on a Longhorn system) and thus pull the rug right out from underneath them. And do it in a fair and open way so that no one can honestly say "They've been cheat'n..."