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"Linux is *the* threat," Says Microsoft

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the halloween-part-two dept.

Ami Ganguli writes "Anybody who works selling Linux into large accounts should read this leaked MS memo on The Register. Show it to your clients as well. The good news is that Microsoft is scared. The bad news is that these guys play tough. On the other hand, I've worked with IBM sales before, and they're no push-overs either." And it appears that they want to go after the the City of Largo as well.

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  1. Re:No by euroderf · · Score: 0, Troll

    Show me some easy to use software that is not proprietary.

  2. Re:Not Yet by kin_korn_karn · · Score: 1, Troll

    I'll probably get -1 Troll for this, but fsck it. Someone has to say it.

    XP is an excellent product. the install is totally painless, the upgrade install doesn't break anything that already existed and get this - all the gee-whiz features like digital camera support and DirectX work as advertised. I haven't ran into any major bugs in the O/S or GUI yet (some with my GF2Pro drivers, but that's nVidia) and it's been as stable as my two FreeBSD boxes. Not to mention it performs -far- better than the old Win98 install did.

    If MS had bothered to put out something of this quality back in 95, we'd all be talking about why linux died.

    Now, my perspective here is as a home user. I have a very good firewall on my home network and all my outside services are taken care of by a BSD box. I sit on a Solaris box all day for work and when I get home I tend to just want to be Joe User, except when I get inspired. I use this machine for typical home user stuff - gaming, surfing, e-commerce, email, pictures, etc., and I have to say that MS has finally given home users a GOOD O/S to use.

    The corporate world, however, has no reason at all to upgrade, so the Linux revolution is still safe. Let the home users have windows, if Linux can take over the corporate world.

  3. Salesmen and Politicians by olympus_coder · · Score: 0, Troll

    are truely akin...

    There is a reason we called them Sales Slimes...

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    Spell check? Why bother. That is what grammer/spelling Nazi freaks who waiste band width posting "spell right" are for.
  4. Re:Unix by Free+Bird · · Score: 0, Troll

    Please don't use VM for virtual machine. It stands for Virtual Memory. Virtual machine is just some stupid, brainless Sun marketing term which should be banned.

    Yes, I think Java sux. And I'm right.