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Microsoft's Strategy Memos

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the enforcers-sent-after-linus dept.

jg21 writes "So Linux made it onto Steve Ballmer's radar screen at last? No mention last year, in his annual strategy memo, but this year there's sentence after sentence - summarized at LinuxWorld this morning - which means, I guess, that 50,000-plus more folks around the world now will be aware of open source...he sent it to everyone in the company! Interestingly, in his public-facing CEO memo, distributed the same day as the internal one, Ballmer in contrast mentions Linux just once. What is it that conjurers call this, ah yes - distraction strategy?"

2 of 465 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Bugfixes? by FrYGuY101 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've run XP 2 years now, on two computers. Had the BSOD once, due to a bad driver. I'd say that's damn near fixed.

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    "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living."

    - Seneca
  2. Umm, not quite Steve. We find them *better* by wookyhoo · · Score: 5, Informative

    "In this environment of lean budgets and concerns about Microsoft's attention to customers, noncommercial software such as Linux and OpenOffice is seen as an interesting, 'good enough' or 'free' alternative."

    Sorry Steve, but that's now quite how it is. Linux and OpenOffice are seen as Stable, Secure, *Better* alternatives.