Steve Ballmer live from D 2007
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| Do you run into a dilemma with Windows Live services -- Silverlight...
| one of the points you mentioned, the second thing you mentioned was that
| it runs on Mac, runs on Linux. But if you're gonna do web-based it can't
| only work on Windows..
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| Some things should only work on Windows, some things work
| cross-platform... we're gonna do different things in Windows than
| you can do in Linux and on the Mac. We need to be able to support
| both models of development.
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/30/steve-ballmer-live-from-d-2007/
3 Reasons Why The OLPC Project has Microsoft Running Scared
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| 1. Millions of children running Linux.
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| 2. Windows developers are taking notice.
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| 3. OLPC is breaking the cost rules.
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http://www.dailytechnobabble.com/2007/05/30/3-reasons-why-the-olpc-project-has-microsoft-running-scared/
Related:
Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users
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| Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, said:
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| "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but
| people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though.
| As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.
| They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to
| collect sometime in the next decade."[1]
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http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html
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