Longhorn

From News.com’s interview with Bill Gates:

Longhorn, in terms of unifying the way you do things, is about letting people get at more of the power and having more simplicity.

Sounds a lot like Mac OS X. Apple is way ahead and now MS must play catch up.

We demonstrated VisiCalc running on Longhorn today, to show that 20 years of compatibility is a serious thing–people who want to run Electric Pencil and dBase and early versions of 1-2-3 if they want. We have built a compatible operating system. That’s one of the things that Microsoft does.

Again, Apple is already there in terms of backwards compatibility both in terms of OS (Classic) and processor (680×0).

If Bill was really concerned about compatibility he would embrace open standards and get his browser up to par. What Bill really wants is to continually increase the lock-in for his Microsoft Empire.