Fat, fatter, fattest: Microsoft’s kings of bloat
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| Our tests show that Windows Vista and Office 2007 not only smash Redmond’s
| previous records for weight gain, but given the same hardware diet, run at
| less than half the speed of generation XP
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/14/16TC-winoffice-performance_1.html
Putting Windows On A Diet ... To Compete With Linux
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| How scared is Microsoft of Linux? There's a hint or two of its fear in the
| fact that MS is preparing a special slim-and-trim version of Windows XP,
| within the next month or two, to run specifically on Asus's Eee PC. You'd
| think maybe it could have done this slimming-down sooner -- something that
| Linux already does without breaking a sweat.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/04/putting_windows.html
Whatever happened to Vista? Microsoft uses that old XP as its
baseline? "Development collapse", aka "reboot". Again.
Related and recent:
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?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
Microsoft's SEC:
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| A prominent example of open source software is the Linux operating system...
| To the extent open source software gains increasing market acceptance, sales
| of our products may decline, we may have to reduce the prices we charge for
| our products, and revenue and operating margins may consequently decline.
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http://www. microsoft.com/msft/SEC/default.mspx
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071023002351958
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