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Microsoft Advised To Learn To Love Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the start-facing-up-to-it dept.

mikael writes "ZDnet is reporting that the management guru Clayton Christensen (author of "The Innovator's Dilemma") has advised Microsoft to learn to love Linux. In particular he advises Microsoft to purchase "Research in Motion", otherwise they will see their applications sucked off from the desktop and onto handheld devices such as the Blackberry."

6 of 418 comments (clear)

  1. poo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    poo

  2. What's up with /. these days? by laptop006 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I got the "nothing for you to see here" again when trying to look at this story. Is /. really starting to fall under the load after all these years?

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  3. bar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    bar

  4. i want to flame but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    whats the famous /. user group called? GNAA?

    i forget, someone help me out here

    thanks babe! 3 U

  5. What cheek ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Next he'll tell Traci Lords how to give head.

    Bill Gates is DEMONSTRATABLY the world's best BUSINESSMAN.

    Who else could make tens of billions of dollars from broken-on-purpose stuff? The entertainment industry coined, "Always leave them wanting more," and Bill honed that idea to a science with a nonmaterial product with just enough features to buy and just enough bugs to need to buy the next version.

  6. Vocabulary and grammer are not prescriptive by einhverfr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just so you know, competitivity isn't a word. The word you want is competitiveness I think.

    What do you mean it isn't a word? "Ain't" is a word in many dialects of English too.... Lets see-- it is a group of letters without whitespace which has a readily understandable meaning....

    Here is the thing-- English teachers think that English is like a programming languages, that there are rules which cannot be violated which define the English language-- i.e. that grammer and vocabulary is prescriptive rather than descriptive.

    However, any first-year student of linguistics will tell you that natural languages have descriptive syntax and grammer, and that the goal of linguistics as a field is to explore these fields and hence to learn about the origins of a natural language.

    As Calvin said (from Calvin and Hobbes) "Verbing weirds language" ;-)

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