Ballmer: Linux Can&#39;t Compare to Windows
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has made a &quot;pre-emptive strike&quot; against Linux, which is fast becoming a bigger thorn in the software giant&#39;s side.
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Itâs funny how circumstances can change your perception of whatâs possible. A few months ago, key Microsoft architects were telling me that it would be impossible to decouple the Avalon presentation subsystem from the Longhorn OS.
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THE GRAND NABOB of the world&#39;s software giant, Microsoft, Bill Gates, has told technologists that he is not afraid of Linux. Speaking at a shindig at the Computer History Museum, Gates said that he had seen
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Ziff Davis - Microsoft looks to be giving the Linux client an opening against Windows with its changes to Longhorn's timing and features. Or are other contenders waiting in the wings? Check out two vastly different views of its opportunities.
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LinuxInsider: Microsoft&#39;s Steve Ballmer argued that the true amount of shifting from Microsoft to Linux in places like Europe and Asia has been overstated in the media.
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A team of researchers is evaluating how Linux and Mac OS X stack up against Windows for internal use.
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Ziff Davis - Opinion: If the Linux desktop is ever to be more than a niche player, it needs a hand from PC vendors, including real support from the ones that already claim to back it.
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Microsoft (Quote, Chart) CEO Steve Ballmer urged Asian government leaders not to take sides in the Linux versus Windows debate. &quot;We recommend to all governments that they not get emotionally involved in preferring
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A year ago, InfoWorld wouldn?t have published an article describing how to switch from Windows to desktop Linux like this one by Neil McAllister. The operating system?s installation glitches hadn?t been smoothed out, app and basic utility support was still too spotty, and peripheral device support lagged. Oh, yeah, there was one more thing: The demand simply wasn?t there.
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Back in February, Ralph Green asked me to speak at the North Texas Linux Users' Group. I discussed Linux administration and then took questions. Some one in the audience asked me about Mono. I gave a cavalier answer having a bias against it. Then someone else in the audience said that I needed to get my facts straight. read more
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By Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle  Dec. 19--If you talk to a hard-core techie who's a user of the Linux operating system or one of the zealots who worship Apple's Macintosh, you won't hear many nice things said about Microsoft.
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Linux's server growth is slowing vis-a-vis Windows server growth.  The reasons are several.  The answer is clear: take on Microsoft directly.
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Microsoft&#39;s CEO argues that Windows is cheaper and more secure than its open-source rival. Do the facts support him? By John Foley.
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What&#39;s one of Steve Ballmer&#39;s biggest headaches? It&#39;s not Linux or security breaches. It&#39;s piracy, the Microsoft CEO said Wednesday.
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I have no problem with Microsoft operating in a market environment. Given a choice, I am sure many of us would gladly pay for Windows and Office rather than use Linux and Open Office.
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Microsoft&#39;s aggressive defense of its intellectual property, which includes claims that Linux violates a number of its patents, is nothing more than &quot;a marketing thing,&quot; according to Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel.
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McNealy stressed that Linux wasn&#39;t the enemy. He noted that Sun Microsystems is one of the leading contributors of free software to open-source projects, that Sun sells computers equipped