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Ballmer on Linux
theodp writes "'In the Linux world, nobody stands behind patent claims,' warned Steve Ballmer, saying that Microsoft customers would be protected from the $550 million Eolas patent infringement judgment. 'I'm not trying to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt,' said the CEO of the company who earlier cried wolf about breaking IE in the wake of the Eolas judgment, prompting the W3C to go to bat for the software giant."
Go linux boy, go! Go ahead and start your anti-MS and sweaty Balmer jokes! But don't address what is actually in the article or whether its valid, just make little snide comments and revel in your closed minds. Good linux boy. Your European masters will be proud.
Don't you people ever get tired of whining?
Steve Balldmer says nothing anyone important cares about. That is all.
who gives a shit?
"In the next ten years, you're going to see more positive change than in the last ten,"
yes, free / open source software will undoubtedly grow and flourish over the next decade.
Ballmer wondered aloud why the content of his speech was not being captured and translated automatically, while also being synchronized with real-time video and a copy of his Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.
because ballmer is a douchebag, and he looks like uncle fester.
Advances in software in coming years would make such features practical, making "information workers" and those in fast-growing fields like healthcare more productive, he said.
what incredible powers of prediction! "advances in software will make information workers more productive". i've gotta write that down somewhere.
Ballmer singled out XML and Web services as the "big breakthrough" of the next decade that will spur innovation.
we're all especially ecstatic that microsoft has actually patented the XML formats of their documents, making them useless for XML's intended purpose - easy interchange of information - outside of microsoft products.
"The fact that companies like Oracle (Corp.), IBM (Corp.) and (Microsoft) have bet on an architected approach to interoperability is huge,"
"architected approach to interoperability". must write that down as well. may come up handy in my next meeting with management.
Ballmer scoffed at arguments that his company's operating system creates a computing "monoculture," [...] Microsoft's platforms offer better interoperability with the company's other technology, such as .NET
this public announcement was brought to you by the Totally Obviously Contradictory Council.
reducing the total cost of ownership of Windows compared with Linux, which is available for free, but often requires significant effort to integrate and maintain
especially with microsoft products. This behavior is by design. (tm), (c) microsoft support knowledgebase.
He cited a Microsoft-sponsored study by Forrester Research Inc. and a similar study by Gartner Inc. to bolster his claims.
in response, i would like to cite a study performed by my wife, commissioned by me, which finds that my cock is huge.
On the touchy issue of security, Ballmer also dismissed the notion that Linux is more secure than Windows, saying that Linux would be attacked just as frequently as Windows if the open source operating system had as large a share of the operating system market as Windows.
mr ballmer has that to look forward to, at least.
"If you have two popular operating systems, both will get attacked -- whatever is popular is going to be attacked,"
yes, and if one of them is a consumer-oriented piece of dogshit for which security is an afterthought, and the other is a serious operating system with security designed in from the ground up and open to public review, guess which one will succumb to the attacks.
While not perfect on security, Microsoft has a defined process for addressing security vulnerabilities, compared with the open source community, which he called "all over the map," when it came to addressing vulnerabilities in Linux, Ballmer said.
he can't possibly belive this means anything to anyone except non-tech managers who manage based on name recognition.
Finally, Ballmer argued that companies should be wary of the lack of indemnity from lawsuits, such as the suit filed by The SCO Group Inc. against DaimlerChrysler AG, IBM, Novell Inc. and others over parts of the Linux operating system that SCO claims infringe on elements of the Unix operating system that it owns.
and i would like to repeat the results of the study mentioned earlier in t
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
So are you saying that a properly written, secure, Windows program will run faster and with more features than an equivalent *nix program?