After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> [...But Microsoft finds an excuse]
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> Windows Server 2008 Features Address Linux Challenge
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> | "We also have server core, which doesn't have the GUI [graphical
> | user interface], so I would say that is a response to the options
> | people had with Linux that they didn't have with Windows," he said.
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> | There are also several computing tasks in which Linux is particularly
> | strong, Laing said, pointing to compute clusters as one.
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> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2132581,00.asp
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> This is hilarious. They still try to reinvent Linux, and they do so poorly
> (e.g. CLI/windowsless UI stripped from the top, rather than going back to
> the ground). Meanwhile, they drop all those feature that they promise, just
> as they did with Vista. Longhorn could become the MEII of the server room.
Some of the changes in the upcoming release of Windows Server 2008
are a response to features and performance advantages that have made
Linux an attractive option to Microsoft customers. ADVERTISEMENT
One of these is the fact that Linux has less of a surface area, which
led customers to believe that Linux is inherently more secure, Bill
Laing, the general manager for Microsoft's Windows Server division,
told eWEEK in an interview at its annual Windows Hardware Engineering
conference here.
Windows SA (surface area)
. . .
There are also several computing tasks in which Linux is particularly
strong, Laing said, pointing to compute clusters as one. Microsoft
has responded to this factor with Windows Compute Cluster Server
2003, for which all the third-party applications are now being moved
across, he said.
. . .
Another area of competition from Linux was on the Web serving front,
particularly Internet-facing Web servers and hosting, and that was
the drive behind Microsoft's push to significantly improve IIS 7
(Internet Information Services).
"We did a lot of work over the incremental work done in [Internet
Information Server] IIS 6 and giving the tools to hosters so they had
packages. But, really, the thrust behind IIS 7 was to respond to
Linux and I think we have had an effect if you look at the data on
Internet-facing Web server numbers," Laing said.
Whaddaya think? In spite of Erik's trumpeting of IIS 6's security,
Microsoft still didn't think IIS is good enough.
But then a Micrsoft spokesman goes all mealy-mouthed:
Asked if Windows was lagging behind Linux on the virtualization
front, McDonald said: "I can't think of a time when anybody in
production with a lot of virtualization has said to me that Linux is
better than Windows in this regard."
Jim Fister, the lead technology strategist at Intel, agreed, telling
eWEEK that he had a lot of discussions around virtualization and had
also not heard anyone claim that Windows was inferior.
Who are they kidding? What do they wear, earmuffs?
Interesting name for the Intel strategist, by the way.
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> MS Insider: The Office Crew Isn't Smart Enough to Supplant Real Windows
> Developers
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> | He concluded ominously. "A trainwreck of biblical proportions looms.
Windows TW (codename: Trainwreck).
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"It turns out Luddites don't know how to use software properly,
so you should look into that." -- Bill Gates, FOCUS interview
http://www.cantrip.org/nobugs.html
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