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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. Ripley's... by JackTripper · · Score: 0, Troll

    Seriously dude, do you believe even half the drivel you say in your interviews? Off the record, of course. I won't tell Bill, I promise!

  2. Microsoft is better! by Evil+W1zard · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah MS is better like cigarettes are good for your health.

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  3. I more interested in the MSFT culture. by Maudib · · Score: 0, Troll

    How would you describe the taste of Bill Gate's man juice?

  4. Re:Has Microsoft considered by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 0, Troll

    And- didn't they already use an open source code base for Internet Explorer 6, thus being in violation of the GPL?

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  5. Re:Interoperability by RLW · · Score: 0, Troll

    Are you sure it's the dog's food it eats?

  6. Re:Regardless of the superiority or not by Russ+Nelson · · Score: 1, Troll

    Microsoft could easily compete and win with Linux, by making Windows a better OS.

    Ceteris paribus. In principle, everything Windows can do, we can do better, and I assume we will. When the only difference between Windows and open source is the price, how can Microsoft compete?
    -russ
    p.s. software patents, but that's a different question for Martin.

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  7. Re:Quality by As+Seen+On+TV · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hello? Have you seen who is being interviewed? The man in charge of FUD? Negativity is his job description.

    Sigh.

    I don't guess it would do any good if I just asked you please not to participate in this thread, huh? There are plenty of places on the Internet where you can yell about how much you hate Microsoft. Do you have to pollute this one particular thread with it, too?

    Here's an opportunity for dialogue, and you just piss all over it. Let me guess ...American?

  8. Re:The one true question... by freakmn · · Score: 0, Troll

    What does a website maintenance service have to do with text editing? You gonna pay them to do it?

    I prefer:
    echo Yes I'm being sarcastic > ~/file

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