Microsoft Acknowledges Linux Threat To Windows

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.'"

Comments

Re:Variant of UNIX according to their sockpuppet,

[BitZtream]

Go ahead and throw the troll mod on me, but Linux is not even a UNIX variant, its a UNIX wanna be. OS X is a UNIX variant, Solaris is a UNIX variant, Linux isn't.

I realize this is going to piss a bunch of you off and they'll be a bunch of posts about how it is using some silly BS justification that simply doesn't hold true.

You should be happy its been elevated to that level in their eyes.

Re:Antitrust avoidance

[Faylone]

Astroturf drivel aside, using $ as a letter still makes you look bad.