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Microsoft May Be Targeting the Ubuntu Desktop
mjasay writes "Microsoft is advertising for a new director of open source strategy, but this one has a specific purpose: fight the Linux desktop. 'The Windows Competitive Strategy team is looking for a strong team member to lead Microsoft's global desktop competitive strategy as it relates to open source competitors.' For a variety of reasons, this move is almost certainly targeted at Ubuntu Linux's desktop success. With the Mac, not Linux, apparently eating into Microsoft's Windows market share, what is it about desktop Linux, and specifically Ubuntu, that has Microsoft spooked?"
Reader christian.einfeldt notes Microsoft's acknowledgment of the FOSS threat to their business model within SEC filings, and suggests that this job posting could instead be about maintaining Internet Explorer's market share lead against Firefox.
I'm sure all your Windows apps worked just fine and all the-mail you had saved in Outlook opened just fine in Ubuntu. /s
You have to be kidding us. You know nothing about Linux. You haven't a clue about how it works or it's design. You are spouting trite comments that you read about on the web. If you have no direct experience keep your mouth shut.
You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.
They probaby know Ubuntu is very, very dangeorous to them, as soon as more people find out it exists, how safe it is, how much it (usually) doesn't screw up your computer, how much more intuitive it is, how much more eyecandy it has, how everything the average computer user will ever need is already installed, Windows is in trouble. Also the fact that its cheaper by a factor that is infinitely high doesn't exactly make things better.
heart Ubuntu! =D
Pretty much all it needs to beat Windows is...more games that match the visual quality, amount, size and complexity of those being developed for Windows. *hides*