After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> Microsoft's biggest threat: Linux
>
> http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012172o-2000630136b,00.htm
>
> Recently, in a CNET interview about EMC, Ballmer again admitted that Linux is
> the #1 threat to Microsoft. He said the same last year (link below).
>
> Feeling the heat at Microsoft
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
>|
>| 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
Actually, Microsoft's biggest enemy is themselves.
Hubris in programmers, I can understand.
Continual fsckups? No.
"Microsoft is incapable of sustained error." Depends on the duration of
"sustained".
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