Microsoft news related to open-source software is not uncommon. Sometimes it is frustrating. Sometimes annoying. Occasionally it is good. Rarely, though, is it comical.

The Register recently reported this:

The recently appointed head of Microsoft’s global Linux and open source team hopes the company will have a clear and comprehensible open source strategy by 2015.

So as Microsoft realizes that open-source software is becoming a real threat, they respond by saying they will have a real plan to respond in just 7 years. And, if Vista is any evidence, it might be more like 9 years 20 years 1,000 years never.

Seriously Microsoft? Come on. In 7 years when you finally come up with a plan you might be suprised to see how much of your empire has been conquerered by open-source. Then you might have to spend the next 15 years coming up with a new plan.

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