The Register®  Original URL:  How Microsoft's file system caper
could wrongfoot the DoJ  And annoy Larry very much indeed  By
Andrew Orlowski  Posted in Software, 9th August 2001 20:38 GMT
A wag last year suggested to us that since Oracle was the only
competition Microsoft had left, its next step would be to bundle
SQL Server with the operating system.  If current briefings are
correct - and Microsoft has evidently been briefing pretty
heavily - then that's exactly what the company intends to do,
and then some. It's a move could not only wrong foot the Beast's
wealthiest antagonist, but antagonise the Department of Justice.
A fortnight ago it emerged that Blackcomb, the successor to
WinXP, was to be put back with an interim release, currently
dubbed 'Longhorn' (but we're not sure how much traction this
codename really has) performing the evolutionary upgrade. Then
on Monday IDG attributed the delay, via Gartner, to antitrust
concerns about revolutionary file system changes in Blackcomb.
The Beast has a cou