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Microsoft Developing Linux Policy, Plan of Attack

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the overused-gandhi-quote-goes-here dept.

Lil' Bobby Gortician writes "This new MSNBC article talks about Microsoft's developing strategy to deal with Linux. They are actually getting some of their sales people certified as Linux experts, and say 1/10th of their test servers now run Linux. My favorite quote? "There's no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness"."

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  1. Soon to be greatest sigg'd quote evar: by bigdady92 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "There's no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness" -Microsoft

    I can see it now...

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  2. Aha! by rde · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's been at Microsoft since college and rattles off techie jargon like value proposition and customer sat (short for satisfaction) like any seasoned Microsoftie.

    Techie jargon? I think I've found Microsoft's problem.

  3. good advice for MS fans by pohl · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think Microsoft is setting an excellent example that happy customers (and fans) of Microsoft should imitate: learn everything that you can about Linux. Install it on your PC. Intentionally break your configuration just to practice fixing it. Install new hardware and figure out how to get it working no matter how much it seems like torture. Find free equivalents to software that you would normally run under Windows, and live with them for a while even if it means sacrificing features or quality. Absorb as much of this knowledge as you can, and share it with your other Microsoft-loving buddies. And once you all are as conversant in Linux as are those people who are choosing it over Windows, you'll be able to more effectively lobby against it...beacuse you'll be armed with knowledge. Never mind that you'll be helping the Linux culture to spread. Hey, look over there...it's an angel, and she's giving away free bacon!

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  4. Microsoft vs Rest of World by shoppa · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Linux is a different kind of opponent. It's not a company to bash, but a software movement with the backing of the entire tech industry.".

    So now the whole world is out to get Microsoft. Isn't such paranoia a classic schizophrenic symptom?

  5. "new feature" by leperkuhn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Heh, here's a good "new feature"

    Allchin points to new features in the version of Windows due in 2007 that will allow users to remotely turn PCs on or off

    My dear lord they are innovating at an exponential rate! Quite possibly next they will unleash "a pointer device cabable of interacting with the screen."

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  6. Re:But also don't forget... by MikeDX · · Score: 5, Funny

    if MS decides to "nuke" IBMs Linux plans, trust me, IBM can "nuke" Windows as well.

    With winuke.exe ?

  7. Best Quote by BrianWCarver · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the article:

    "Linux at some point could be good enough to run home PCs."

    I'm sitting here with my fingers crossed, biting my lip, hoping for that day!

    Oh, this message written on Debian Sarge, current uptime: 31 days, 12 hours, 35 minutes.

    HA!

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  8. Human stupidity by rvw · · Score: 5, Funny

    Einstein said once: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." And I'm afraid he's right...