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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. maybe the TCO is lower by havaloc · · Score: 0, Troll

    As a systems admin, I don't want to fuss around with kernels, deciding between a distribution, and all that jazz. With an educational discount, Windows 2003 server costs my department $142 (sure, it's more in a commercial environment), I can install it, set it up, run updates on it once in a while, run the baseline security analyzer on it, and forget about it. Give me a linux that does all this in an easy to use manner, and I'll switch. Sure, I could use apt and the others, but it just takes too much time, and you have to worry about various dependencies and what not. I'd like nothing better than to run a Unix variant, but until you bring me a monolithic distribution that just works, I'll have to stay Microsoft for now.

    1. Re:maybe the TCO is lower by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      Just look at the "security" of the Linux kernel. Users are limited to 16 groups?? Only one group can have permissions applied to a file? And no group nesting allowed?

      Yeah, there's a security system I'd be proud of.

      You can mod this comment down, but you can't propose a security system like THAT to a company interested in protecting their assets. WAKE UP SLASHDOT.

  2. Oh that one is easy, by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 1, Troll
    they ain't vulnerabilities, they are features. Remember if something goes wrong with windows it is the fault of the drivers, the hardware or the user. NEVER EVER Microsoft.

    I am reminded when they tried to compare Apache holes with IIS. They only listed the ones on the default IIS but ALL the ones that could affect Apache with all the extras added.

    Look I will tell you a little secreat. You know how to tell when a Microsoft employee is lying? His mouth is open.

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  3. Re:Best part of the article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    So, when is the Linux kernel going to natively support a *real* system for access control? You know, one that doesn't limit a user to 16 groups? Or one that allows nested group membership?

    Windows may have more virii, but that is because it is more popular. And it is more popular because it has more capabilities, even in security.

    You can mod this comment down, but until the Linux community realizes that things like the horrible ACL system in the kernel needs an overhaul, the market will still choose Windows.

  4. 8th dimension by HarveyBirdman · · Score: 0, Troll

    Windows is not my goddamnned OS. Understand, Monkeyboy?

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  5. Re:Windows TCO by k4_pacific · · Score: 1, Troll

    "...were problems they wouldn't have had, had they been running Debian." ... or CPM/80 for that matter.

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  6. In Other News... by spectecjr · · Score: 1, Troll

    Pro-Linux readers bash anti-Linux FUD by spreading... more FUD of their own.

    Can't anybody take the high road here?

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  7. Grow up by OreoCookie · · Score: 0, Troll

    Linux is an unusable piece of crap just like Slashdot. The reason 95% of computers run Windows is because it's 100% better than Linux. Get over it, grow up and get a real job, and quite reading Slashdot all day.