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Re: [News] [Rival] BusinessWeek on Microsoft's Risk of BAN in Europe

____/ [H]omer on Saturday 01 March 2008 19:45 : \____

> Linonut wrote:
> 
>> Didn't that hostile goober, Ballmer, once threaten to remove Windows
>> from the European market?
> 
> Yes:
> 
> 'Recognizing a crude PR trick when it sees one, the Commission shot back
> saying it was "misleading" to imply it was responsible for delays to
> Windows Vista in Europe. Microsoft watchers will remember the company's
> long-running case with the US government did nothing to hamper the
> delivery of Windows XP in 2001.'
> 
> http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/09/07/windows_vista_ec_delay/
> 
> And guess what? They were right.
> 
> Ballmer: all mouth and no gonads.
> 
>> Promises promises.
>> 
>> Well, if you want something done, ya gotta do it yerself.
> 
> Oh the irony, if it should come true :)

Good article:

2007: a world without Microsoft?

,----[ Quote ]
| The disappearance of Microsoft and Windows would leave a massive
| vacuum in the computing industry - who would be able to take 
| advantage and slip into the gap? Who would benefit the most?
| 
| [...]
| 
| Linux is already offering alternatives to Microsoft, and would
| easily rush into the gap.
`----

http://apcmag.com/4891/a_world_without_microsoft

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