Dell Backs Open-Source Operating System
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| "Dell is one of Microsoft's most valued partners. At the same time, Dell
| is a multi-platform company that offers a variety of PC solutions to
| meet customer needs," Hauser said in an e-mail to City on a Hill
| Press. "We don't anticipate their relationship to affect sales of
| Microsoft Vista. Windows Vista is safer, easier to use, more
| entertaining and better connected at home, at work and on the go
| than any operating system we?ve ever released."
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| [...]
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| Despite Microsoft's statements, Gunn insists that Microsoft is not
| happy.
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| "I think it is evolutionary; it is common sense; and it is the
| future," Gunn said. ?It gives the user the ultimate option of
| which solution they want. It puts the user in the driver's seat."
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http://www.cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=650
It's funny that they keep comparing Vists to XP, probably because they know
their platform is not as good as OS X and Linux.
Hauser, who was speaking for Microsoft here, is truly scum. Have a look:
Microsoft/Novell patent deal -- a customer doesn't speak
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| I asked Matthew O'Neill, group head of distributed systems for HSBC
| global IT operations, whether he was ever worried about either Microsoft
| or Novell suing it for using the other company?s products.
|
| Before O'Neill could answer, however, Susan Hauser, general manager
| of strategic partnerships and licensing at Microsoft, chipped in to
| answer for him, giving the stock answer that the companies? customers
| had concerns about intellectual property and wanted peace of mind.
|
| Well here I was asking the companies' customer to explain his concerns
| about intellectual property and he wasn?t being given a chance to
| speak. Eventually he did make his feelings known, but it would seem
| HSBC isn?t as concerned about IP infringement as Microsoft.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/03/microsoftnovell.html
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