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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Why Internet Explorer went free by Henk+Poley · 2005-02-09 07:34 · Score: 1, Redundant

Microsoft has a deal with Spyglass so that they could use their Mosaic browser software, but Microsoft needs to pay a royalty per sold item. So when they dropped the price to 0 there is no need to pay Spyglass anymore.