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Linux the Tortoise to Microsoft's Hare?

Posted by michael on from the slow-and-steady-gets-eaten-by-a-bear dept.

LukePieStalker writes "TheStreet.com is running a story by Ronna Abramson that makes a case for Linux cutting into Microsoft's server business and forcing Redmond to trim margins. A particular vulnerability is seen in overseas markets, but the heat should be turned up everywhere once Unix replacements are pretty far along by then end of next year. A quote from one CTO: [Linux is] "going to force Microsoft to spend more time on security and stability, and less time on adding new features.""

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  1. Security vs. Features by handy_vandal · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Microsoft to spend more time on security and stability, and less time on adding new features.
    - from the article

    Thank God! Thank God!

    Windows does not need more features. It's got plenty of features already! Any "features" it doesn't have ... let some apps developer write them!

    No need for me to go on about "security" ... this is SlashDot, after all.

    -kgj

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    -kgj