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Steve Ballmer on MS Server, Linux, Yahoo & More
yorugua writes "Furniture trembled as Steve Ballmer was to be interviewed by InformationWeek. He then went on to talk about Linux: 'How does Microsoft beat Linux? The same way "you beat any other competitor: You offer good value, which in this case means good total cost of ownership," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says.', Embrace-Extend-Extinguish: 'We say when we embrace standards, we'll be transparent about how we're embracing standards. [...] If we have deviations, we'll be transparent about the deviations.'"
If you want to be that reductionist, then you could say dictionaries are useless because every entry simply consists of a term followed by the same term. Ballmer gave a fairly thin, but at least somewhat substantive account of what the strategy is.
Not that their conduct in standards committees resembles competing on merit in any way. So either Ballmer's lying or not in control.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
You seem to be confused.
Windows up till Windows Me was based around MS DOS, this is true.
That said, with the development of Win NT, they did a complete kernal re-write. Since NT 4, the MSDOS aspects of windows have been completely emulated.
Basically, everything you said became wrong after the release of Windows NT. Windows server versions since NT4 server are as multi thread/multi user friendly as any version of Unix.