Interview with Michael Robertson

In the Slashdot interview of Lindows’ Michael Robertson, Michael said:

The Xbox is Microsoft’s first attempt at a closed architecture PC. What they learn from the Xbox will be in their next generation closed desktop PC system.

This is an interesting statement, because Microsoft is apparently working with HP on what sounds like a “closed desktop PC system”. Though $99/year may sound expensive, Michael’s goals of pushing the state of the art in desktop environments are certainly worthy. Note that I didn’t say “Linux desktop environments”. I think that ClickNRun packaging of software is a nice service that has no parallel.