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Microsoft & Linux Should Co-Exist In China

Posted by Zonk on from the get-along-or-i'm-turning-this-country-around dept.

alabamarasta writes "In a recent report from China titled "Embattled Linux fights back", it appears that Microsoft is just as embattled." From the article: "Citing an executive at Microsoft headquarters, Lu said Linux and Windows should co-exist. Microsoft in recent years has been struggling with an increasing number of security flaws on its Windows platforms while Linux is generally regarded as more secure. 'For users, openness increases the trustworthiness,' said Lu."

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  1. hypocrisy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I find it funny how every MS topic has a flood of off-topic trolls ranting and raving about the evils of MS, yet nobody does the same in topics about a country like China, that has killed tens of millions of people. If yall REALLY cared about evil in this world, we'd be seeing lots of posts about China's murder of its population. Check out http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.TAB1.2.1.GIF for numbers.

  2. china should.... by KillShill · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    run the hell away from windows and microsoft if they know what's good for them.

    there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to use windows unless you have a very specific reason and no other way of fulfulling that requirement.

    in other words, NO.

    why get tangled up in the MS web unless your life and livelihood were at stake?

    proprietary software in general and the spyware infested (direct from redmond, not the 3rd party garbage from greedy scumbags) windows is terrible for the computing world.

    if you're a gamer like i am, then i feel sorry for you as well. having to use garbage like windows to run your entertainment. i only wish for WINE or ReactOS to mature more quickly so that i and other gamers can ditch Genuine windows for something that isn't associated with this bugging device desguised as an OS.

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  3. Re:In the news: Ballmer Throws Chair Across Pacifi by spectecjr · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Microsoft have been incredibly slow to realise that Windows can always go back to being what it was when it first got really successful at version 3.1, a GUI. Most people don't know what an OS even is, and wouldn't be aware of any difference (except increased stablility) if what they bought from Microsoft was a GUI for Linux instead of an actual operating system with GUI built in. Taking this approach (albeit with a Unix core) hasn't hurt Apple's OSX.

    What would the point of that be precisely? The NT kernel is better than the Linux kernel anyway.

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