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Linux's Role In Microsoft's Decline

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the karma-catching-up dept.

nerdyH writes "As early as last quarter, Microsoft admitted that Linux and netbooks were eating into its fat profits. Recently, it came home, with the software giant announcing its first-ever layoffs. LinuxDevices interviewed Linux Foundation Director Jim Zemlin on Linux's role in Microsoft's misfortunes. Zemlin sums it up pretty well: 'Companies can offer their own branded software platform based on Linux. If Microsoft is getting 75 percent margins, you would like some of that high-margin business, too.'"

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  1. Re:Oh, Dear by Wandering+Wombat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shut up! You don't know what you're talking about. Obama's made of kittens and sparkles, held together with HOPE... and more sparkles! If anything bad happened this week, it's Linux's fault!

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  2. Re:Oh, Dear by Onymous+Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Net Applications confirms it!

  3. Re:Oh, Dear by Hordeking · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can't spell Kucinich without UFO.

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  4. Re:Oh, Dear by ushering05401 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Windows 7 isn't leaner. It just feels a bit better, and then that is only because it is being compared mainly to Vista."

    You wouldn't know it from the press lately... Might as well rename 7 to Microsoft Obama.

  5. Re:Oh, Dear by poopdeville · · Score: 2, Funny

    He didn't write "xor".

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