M$ Strikes Again

[Interscope]

This is an article about how m$ wants to kill BeOS. Written by a guy I know from the net.

http://jkansoft.mine.nu/beos.html

"BeOS PE OS comes as a 50 megabyte executable, and can peacefully coexist with a Windows 95, 98, or Millenium installation. Unfortunately, Microsoft saw the dangers of having other operating systems run in parallel with Windows, and appropriately designed Windows 2000 and Windows XP to disallow any such operating systems from being installed."

[Xenoran]

That statement is totally false... if BeOS made thier OS NTFS compatible or included a built-in non-destructive repartitioning program it could co-exist with any version of NT. I find it suprising that they didn't include NT 3.51 and NT 4.0 as OSes which "disallow" BeOS. What did Be expect them to do? Release 3 or 4 more versions of Windows built on the outdated 9x kernel, just the less than 1% of BeOS users could continue to use their OS? Also, if they love Be so much, nothing was stopping them from buying BeOS Professial which was completely OS-independant. The bottom line is that Be is out of business and they're just looking for the biggest pocketbook to hit for compensation.

[preacher]

Microsoft doesnt have to try and kill BeOS, its already dead. They discontinued BeOS months ago. I used it for a while, but it just hasnt had any hardware support for new devices. Im sorry to see it go, but I guess that not every OS can make it. By the way, you can run other OS on top of NT/2000/XP, just get vmware.

[Calum]

openbeos is still around though, but it is probably a ground up OS with no ideas of integration with windows (in the first place why???) so the BeOS is not dead, which seems to be a popular misconception, because Be Inc most certainly are...