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Microsoft Acknowledges Linux Threat To Windows

Posted by kdawson on from the credit-where-due dept.

angry tapir sends along coverage from Good Gear Guide of a recent Microsoft !0-K SEC filing: "Microsoft for the first time has named Linux distributors Red Hat and Canonical as competitors to its Windows client business in its annual filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The move is an acknowledgment of the first viable competition from Linux to Microsoft's Windows client business, due mainly to the use of Linux on netbooks, which are rising in prominence as alternatives to full-sized notebooks. ... 'Client faces strong competition from well-established companies with differing approaches to the PC market,' Microsoft said in the filing. 'Competing commercial software products, including variants of Unix, are supplied by competitors such as Apple, Canonical, and Red Hat.'"

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  1. Re:Antitrust avoidance by FlyingSquidStudios · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm no Microsoft fan, but I'd say that does prove they aren't a monopoly. (They're just a near-monopoly.)

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  2. Re:Antitrust avoidance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't think your average Linux zealot will get warm fuzzes, but rather a raging hard-on. They've warped computers and software into something of a battle between forces of good verses evil on a level that could inspire it's own Star Wars sequel. They will use this as proof their crusade has the "Dark side" worried. They are so like children.

  3. Re:Antitrust avoidance by sys.stdout.write · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, but it'll come back to bite them when 2010 is the year of the Linux desktop.

  4. I smell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Bailout money!!!

  5. !0-K ??? by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 1, Funny

    "!0-K"

    Microsoft's secret way of letting programmers that things are not okay!!!

    Quick! To the Bat Chair!

  6. Re:Variant of UNIX according to their sockpuppet, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wrong !!

    Linux is _NOT_ Unix.

    Do you believe in anything that can form a recursive acronym?

  7. Re:This Is News??!!! by k10quaint · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess you have never heard of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing right?
    [secretM$handshake] Wink wink nudge nudge know what I mean? [secretM$handshake]

  8. Re:This Is News??!!! by fucket · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your second and third links seem to be broken.

  9. Re:This Is News??!!! by Macthorpe · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees.

    (Couldn't resist.)

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  10. Re:This Is News??!!! by master5o1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    affirmative. correct.
    or
    "In light of your accusation I would have to agree with what you are saying, as it does appear to support the accusation made."

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  11. Re:It's not just political posturing by dna_(c)(tm)(r) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then what are all those Windows CE devices doing?

    Crashing?