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____/ Rex Ballard on Thursday 24 July 2008 23:35 : \____
>> 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.
>> `----
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> I find it interesting that he did not go after Open Source. It seems
> that Ballmer is feeling more pressure against revenue from Linux than
> from OpenOffice. Perhaps that's because existing Office XP customers
> are simply downloading OpenOffice and installing it, which neither
> increases nor decreases revenue in the immediate sense. On the other
> hand, over the long run, customers may be opting NOT to upgrade to
> Office 2007, and to stick with Office 2000/XP and XP.
I'm pretty sure it's Free software as a whole that he worries about, but he
needs to embrace and 'extend' it (Windows hosts and FOSS on Windows), so he's
not allowed to say so. A few months later, Ozzie acknowledged that "open
source" was the threat.
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