Microsoft Sends Linux Survey

GnrlFajita writes "According to Newsforge, Microsoft is sending Linux users a survey asking why they use Linux, and what can be done to make Windows better. The article suggests taking the survey (or surveys, one for business users and one for home users), then sharing your answers with others in the community." Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.

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No need the other way around..

[Anonymous Coward]

In related news, Linux developers considered asking Windows users what would get them to switch, but then realized they were already doing their best to clone Windows to the finest detail.

POISON THE DATA

[flacco]

for every intelligent linux user who refuses to give MS the very data it needs to attack linux, there is a gullible one who will cheerfully fill out the survey.

that's why it's the intelligent user's duty to fill out the survey in a random, but believable way.

make their data useless in the aggregate.

Blah blah

[NanoGator]

Bash bash, Microsoft sucks, Linux = automatically better yadda yadda yadda. What I'd really like to see the Linux community issue one of these surveys, and then address the issues that the users bring up.

Re:Wow, what jerks

[Grizzlysmit]

No, I don't mean Microsoft, I mean all the posts I've read here so far.

We have nothing to fear from the world's largest software maker paying attention to the needs and wants of the Linux community. Really. Honestly. We've loathed them for years because their software sucks -- why not help them do it better? If your answer is that they *can't* do it better, then fine. But that's not my answer. I can think of a number of things that I'd like them to do. I'll still use Linux, but I'm hopeful that those times I'm obligated to use Windows won't be as painful.

Or are you too afraid that Microsoft can beat Linux after all?

The only Jerk I see here is you TROLL, and the idiots who moded you up, have you ever considered that M$, has nothing to offer to some of us. There is nothing M$ can do to win my busness I don't want anything from them, except for them to get LOST. GET IT STUPID.

I don't fear them paying attention to my needs, I am indifferent, I don't want them to make better software, their just irrelevant looser, I will never use a propriety OS again, not thiers not Apples not anyones. And I never use anything but Linux, and if I ever do it'll *BSD or some other FOSS OS.