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Re: [News] Yahoo/Microsoft Bid Appears to Fail, Microsoft Takes Plunge

High Plains Thumper <highplainsthumper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/02/06/money-comes-back-to-google
>> 
>> "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I?m going to fucking
>> bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again.
>> I?m going to fucking kill Google." --Steve Ballmer, Microsoft
>> CEO
> 
> He sounds like an unwelcomed COLA troll.  Like father, like son?
> 
> Here is something that might explain the increased anti-Linux 
> trolling going on in COLA and just about all other Linux forums 
> on the internet.
> 
> http://redmondmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=6428
> 
> Ballmer Takes Anti-Linux Campaign to IT Executive E-mail List
> 
> [quote]
> It was the first time that Microsoft has used the IT executive 
> e-mail newsletter to overtly attack a competitive threat. In the 
> past, the executive e-mails from Ballmer, chairman and chief 
> software architect Bill Gates and group vice president Jeff 
> Raikes have addressed internal issues, industry challenges or 
> generic IT topics. Previous messages included Gates' famous 
> Trustworthy Computing message and two updates on security 
> progress, messages on spam and preserving and enhancing the value 
> of e-mail, managing IT for business value and Microsoft's 
> commitment to customers.
> 
> In his Microsoft Monitor blog, Jupiter Research analyst Joe 
> Wilcox noted that the lack of new arguments bewildered him until 
> he made a connection with the timing of the end of support for 
> Windows NT 4.0. The end of extended support for the 
> eight-year-old server operating system on Dec. 31 is widely 
> viewed as an opportunity for customers to consider switching 
> their Windows servers to Linux.
> 
> "The time is right for Microsoft to come out swinging at Linux 
> again. With the NT 4 support respirator about spent and customer 
> holdouts still hanging onto the operating system but looking for 
> a spry replacement, Microsoft has every reason to make sure 
> migration isn't to Linux," Wilcox wrote.
> [/quote]
> 
> Since Vista as an operating system has not been well received and 
> there is considerable negative sentiment about it, the 
> opportunity has arisen for the world to embrace other operating 
> system technologies.
> 
> A rather good take for Linux, but a rather sad commentary on the 
> opposition.
> 

Be very afraid... Steve Ballmer's written a nasty executive e-mail
newsletter...

I wonder if anyone is dumb enough to fall for this stuff any more?  Oh
yeah, apart from Ashley Highfield and Erik Huggers and Alistair
Farquarson...

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