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Ask Microsoft's Martin Taylor About Linux vs. Windows

Posted by Roblimo on from the TCO-studies-prove-whatever-you-want-them-to dept.

Martin Taylor is Microsoft's global general manager of platform strategy, but he's best-known as the man the company trots out to refute claims of Linux superiority. Here are links to several interviews he's done in the past two years: vnunet.com; CMP; Computerworld; and one on Microsoft's own site. As usual, please submit one question per post. We'll present 10 - 12 of the highest-moderated questions to Mr. Taylor about 24 hours after this post appears, and we expect to publish his answers within the next week.

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  1. Seriously... by Sensible+Clod · · Score: 3, Funny

    how DO you say that stuff and keep a straight face?

    Botox, maybe?

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  2. The one true question... by stu_coates · · Score: 5, Funny

    Notepad or Wordpad? ;-)

  3. Plain speech by lovebyte · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dear Martin,

    I have read a couple of your interviews and I would like to ask you to answer to this one in plain English. Please! Could you avoid silly metaphors (try not to mention ballpark for instance) or sentences such as "So someone asks 'Hey can you guys ...'". And try to explain what such a sentence means: "We really [wanted] to go dial down the emotion, dial down the rhetoric, have a more fact-oriented approach and dial up the pragmatic analysis of solutions." (see computerworld interview first sentence!)
    It's painful to read and hardly understandable. Thanks in advance.

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  4. Re:Interoperability by jarich · · Score: 3, Funny
    Thirdly, this would raise a big stink. RMS himself might step out to chastize MS if they did something like this.

    Oh yeah, that's a great reason! I'm sure that Bill is terrified of RMS! :)

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