Don't cry for Microsoft (the truth is, it never loved you)
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| Microsoft's history can be simply summarised. It made billions on the back of
| software that was in fact years behind the competition. What it did right,
| was to license the software for anyone who used a standard Intel
| architecture. This made it instantly poplar and useful for a lot of people.
| Other simply followed suit.
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| But Microsoft either always failed to make a great product for its time or
| never bothered. My money is on the latter. So many unpaid programmers making
| Linux the great operating system it is today must testify to that end.
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http://teknoboy.blogspot.com/2007/11/dont-cry-for-microsoft-truth-is-it.html
Related:
Consultant: Microsoft responds to Open Source leadership
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| Open source consultant and developer Jeff Waugh believes the market is
| beginning to recognize Microsoft's behavior when it's on the back foot. This
| move, he says, is just another sign.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/101107-consultant-microsoft-responds-to-open.html
Microsoft Plays Catch-Up
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| Yahoo! announced a $680 million deal to acquire the 80% of Right Media
| that it didn't already own. This follows Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) larger
| $3.1 billion deal to acquire DoubleClick, a company that Microsoft was
| originally reported to have been going after.
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http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2007/05/01/microsoft-plays-catch-up.aspx
Who needs Windows Home Server with Linux around?
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| Is this a joke? I only recently started paying attention to Windows Home
| Server, since I tend to focus more on desktop operating systems and
| enterprise server systems. So I didn't realize until now that WHS is really
| just a vanilla file server.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9015653445.html
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