____/ Wes Groleau on Wednesday 02 April 2008 00:22 : \____
> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>> At 0.6 percent of desktop market evidently no too many people care about
>> Linux.
>
> However, the newsgroup market share of posts like this
> suggest that you feel very threatened by this 0.6 percent.
That's because:
1. He (real name Gary Stewart, plus hundreds of pseudonyms) is a Microsoft
Munchkin.
2. He lied.
3. Microsoft is most afraid of Linux. From a recent interview:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that. Perhaps Google on that layer, although frankly speaking,
| most of what we have there is upside. We're small and they're big. (With)
| most things, we're big and the other guy is small, so we have more to lose
| than gain. In this case, we have more to gain than to lose with Google.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
4. Microsoft is running low on cash, despite the hypnosis it has thrives in,
much like Enron and Worldcom.
Microsoft says to borrow money for Yahoo deal
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| Microsoft Corp said on Monday it may borrow money for the first time in its
| history to fund a portion of its $44.6 billion unsolicited offer for Yahoo
| Inc.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSN0455692920080205
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