OT: It must be true I read/heard it in the news!

[Brian Densmore]

http://news.com.com/2001-7344_3-0.html?tag=nefd_guts

<quote>
 "We will have a command line-only version" of Windows, though likely one with limited features, 
said Rob Short, Microsoft's vice president of Windows Core Technology, in a 2003 interview. The 
command-line version is still under development and discussion, with no release deadline announced, 
a Microsoft representative said in late February.

Windows' command line is a far cry from the comparatively feeble tools for DOS users. O'Reilly and 
Associates' "Windows Server in a Nutshell," by Mitch Tulloch, devotes 203 of its 647 pages to 
Windows' command line interface, used mostly by system administrators.
</quote>

A Windows command line-only version? Umm... don't they mean DOS ?.?

Windows command line a far cry from DOS? 
Ummm... where do they dig these reporters up. There should be a law, that
in order to write about a subject you have to actually understand what 
you are talking about. The command line in Windows ***IS*** DOS, or what is left of
it. The command line in Windows is nothing more than a window running a DOS shell.

And now for something completely different:
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+targets+amateur+programmers/2100-1007_3-5248349.html?tag=nefd.top
Micro$oft is feeling threatened by MySQL, I guess. Or maybe this is a new twist on bait-n-switch?
or maybe not so new. 
 
oi,
Brian

Windows is a 
32 bit extension to a 
16-bit graphical shell for an 
 8-bit operating system originally for a 
 4-bit microprocessor by a 
 2-bit company that can't stand 
 1 bit of competition