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Latest Ballmergram Bashes Linux TCO

Posted by michael on from the starting-to-sweat dept.

Phoe6 writes "Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has used the software giant's latest executive email to stoke up Microsoft's fight against the rise of Linux. The 2,600 word missive was titled 'Customer focus: comparing Windows with Linux and UNIX'. In it, Ballmer repeated the key themes of Microsoft's controversial Get The Facts campaign. Zdnet has its report here." Linuxworld also has a story.

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

    hi.

  2. Frist Pots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sucka!

  3. So... by Short+Circuit · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    They've stopped calling them "Halloween" documents? But October 31st is so close!

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  4. What's with that Linuxworld article? by FuzzyBad-Mofo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's hard
    to read an
    article when
    it's formatted
    for a 100
    pixel width.

  5. Re:From Linux to Windows by Enigma_Man · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sox won the world series last night. My BAC is probably a significant nonzero number still.

    -Jesse

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  6. Re:From Linux to Windows by Mattintosh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, same here... I'm a Cardinals fan.

    I'm just taking solace in the fact that every time the Red Sox have ever lost in the past or lose in the future, it's because they suck. There is no curse, and now it's been proven.

    I'm not too worried about the Cardinals, though... It's their decade. They always win a World Series in even numbered decades.

  7. Re:From Linux to Windows by Enigma_Man · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm a Sox fan! I'm allowed, because my team is better than yours!

    Wow, I'm burning through Karma today like it's burnable karma.

    -Jesse

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  8. Sox fan, huh? No worries, FAA to the rescue! by SysKoll · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Well, you now know the simple condition for your fav team to win: just have a lunar eclipse the night of the game.

    In other news, the FAA has decided to allocate a tail number to every pig and teach them the basic airport approach procedures, due to the sudden increase in flying pigs.

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