Why Windows Must (and Will) Go Open Source

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 4, 2009 @11:00AM from the lacks-the-ring-of-inevitability dept.

Attila Dimedici writes "Charles Babcock of Information Week published an interesting article suggesting that Microsoft will have to at least to some degree take Windows open source if they want to stay in business. He suggests that the money to be made from the things MS builds on top of Windows (Office, Server, SQL Server, Exchange, Sharepoint, etc.) is so much greater than what can be made from Windows itself that MS will have to give up the revenue stream from Windows in order to maintain these other, more valuable, revenue streams."

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Why Windows Must ot (and Will Not) Go Open Source by NonUniqueNickname · 2009-02-04 11:09 · Score: 1, Troll

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Hard to believe linux desktop gets anyone at Microsoft shaking in their booties with its < 1% market share. MacOS just broke above 10%. That's a target to neutralise, not linux.