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Ask Microsoft's Martin Taylor About Linux vs. Windows

Posted by Roblimo on Wednesday February 9, 2005 @05:00AM 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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Re:TCO of Windows vs. Linux by REBloomfield · 2005-02-09 05:08 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Training for a start. Peer Support second.
Re:Quality by ednopantz · 2005-02-09 05:09 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Because making the browser into a great computing platform would commoditize the OS and their main source of revenue. They don't want good web apps.
Re:TCO of Windows vs. Linux by willieray · 2005-02-09 05:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic

easy! MS has the Developers! Developers, developers, developers! In actuality when MS is granted all of their completely legitimate and self-innovated patents, the $300 you pay for winders will easily be under the cost of litigation/ licenscing to use the NOR op or a scroll bar in your FOSS web browser. See, isn't that better?
Re:more humor: objective preference confirmation by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-09 06:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Geeze, get it right : "Have you stopped molesting your dog?"
Re:more humor: objective preference confirmation by Fafnir_b · 2005-02-09 06:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Geeze, get it right

You meant geese, didn't you? And I'm not sure whether they count as white meat.