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Microsoft Should Worry Less About Live, More About Linux
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| With news yesterday that the U.S. is formally in a recession, and with broad
| economic strife around the world, the fact that Ubuntu doesn't cost anything
| to download, is easy to install, maintains higher performance numbers than
| Vista and is easy enough for kids to use could start to make a dent in
| Microsoft's desktop OS business in the PC space.
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| If that happens, even making Vista available for discounts on its Live Search
| Cashback site may not be enough to keep Ubuntu, and Linux, from getting
| beachhead.
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http://www.crn.com/software/212201323
Linux and Mac OS X Killing Windows Bit by Bit
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| Microsoft's Windows operating system continues its downward trajectory on a
| spiral that is seeing it continually losing “eyeballs.” Even with the launch
| of Windows XP Service Pack 3 and the fixing of Windows Vista RTM with the
| release of Service Pack 1, the market share of Windows has continued to drop
| throughout 2008, and the past month made no exception to the trend. The open
| source Linux and Apple's Mac OS X proprietary operating systems are eroding
| the Windows audience bit by bit, and have taken the platform below the 90%
| market share mark.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Linux-and-Mac-OS-X-Killing-Windows-Bit-by-Bit-99117.shtml
Related:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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