[Am-info] MS will buy Connectix

[Mitch Stone]

No, at least not right away, but I can see them using the ownership of 
this key Mac product as an implied threat against Apple. These guys are 
serious control freaks and they don't want Apple or any other 
competitor thinking they can do without Microsoft.

Another potential problem: Apparently VPC for the Mac will be spun off 
to Microsoft's Mac Business Unit. That's logical enough, but what will 
become of the core technologies that make VPC work? Sounds to me like 
they're staying in Redmond. So will they be evolved in such a way as 
they advance the Mac product, or developed to serve other objectives 
within Microsoft? I think that question is probably rhetorical.

So while I doubt Microsoft will kill VPC for the Mac outright, I would 
not be surprised if they didn't threaten to do so, or shove it onto the 
neglected back burner.

On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 03:44 PM, Sujal Shah wrote:

> I honestly don't buy that, yet.  While I can believe that Microsoft 
> would buy Connectix, I don't see the death of VPC.  I don't know why 
> microsoft would do that... VPC just increases the market for Windows 
> licenses to hardware that normally would lock them out.
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