Microsoft's next version of Windows, code named Longhorn, is scheduled to come out in 2006. Despite being almost 2 years away, the open-source community is planning its response. One of the key features of Longhorn will be the blending of the browser and the OS... so to retaliate, the open source group Mozilla (open source browser) and Gnome (the open source UI) have begun talks about how they can work together and compete.
Microsoft is clearly making a giant bet with Longhorn, and it has bet that they will be able to out innovate the open-source community. This type of cross collaboration within the open-source community has the potential to define the success of open-source in the future. If the collaboration between Gnome and Mozilla works well, the executive team in Redmond will have an even bigger problem on their hands than they currently think they do.
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