Annual report: Microsoft sizes up its competition
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| Client (PC Windows): "Competing commercial software products, including
| variants of Unix, are supplied by competitors such as Apple Computer,
| Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems," Microsoft says in the latest
| filing. "The Linux operating system, which is also derived from Unix and is
| available without payment under a General Public License, has gained some
| acceptance as competitive pressures lead PC OEMs to reduce costs."
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/119449.asp
Linux on the common users PC is happening!
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| Microsoft will probably become a Linux company too, they have also already
| shown the first steps in this happening, they have sign partnerships with a
| few Linux companies like, Novell, Xandros & Linspire.
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http://www.osgui.com/miscellaneous/linux-on-the-common-users-pc-is-happening-2.html
Related:
Understanding Open Source technology
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| Already industrial watchers are pointing to a serious showdown,
| which in the meantime, the Chief Executive of Microsoft Corporation,
| Steve Ballmer did not rule out in a recent interview in which he
| also explained why Microsoft announced a sweeping reorganisation
| of its Windows division.
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| "We have to outrun this [Linux] phenomenon" he was quoted as saying, and "
| ...if we let up for a minute... then that other stuff will gain"
| attraction.
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http://www.thetidenews.com/article.aspx?qrDate=01/31/2007&qrTitle=Understanding%20Open%20Source%20technology&qrColumn=ISSUES
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