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All's fair, in love and war.
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Posted by: chaosisreality
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1426252,00.asp
Posted by: Canis Lupus
It's about time Microsoft feels the pressure from Linux and does something with it ... each OS has its advantages, but you have to admit the Linux community has taken an awful lot of potshots at Microsoft that were often fueled by emotion rather than straight facts. Time to dispel myths and balance the scales...
On the flip side, this is just another marketing strategy by Microsoft to gain back customers lost to the "cheaper" Linux solutions. Hopefully it's not a misinformation campaign...
Posted by: BooRadley
Three years ago Microsoft would barely even acknowledge that Linux existed. It's come a very, very, very long way.
Of course, Microsoft's products have improved a bit in that time, as well, after twenty years of stagnation and mediocracy. Funny what a little bit of competition will do to a monolithic monopoly like MSFT.
Posted by: chaosisreality
If I started my own open source browser right now (Call it choasnix), neither Linux not Microsoft would look at it. But if I got 100 people to use it, and that 100 people recruited another 100 from Microsoft, and so on... they would begin to notice.
And maybe it's good, if this doesn't turn into a smear campaign between the two organizations.
Posted by: laborat
(. is the root of all evil.
Posted by: BooRadley
I've seen some pretty off-the-wall browsers on Linux, though. Sun has a browser that's pure java, and I saw, but didn't bother to install (I may go back and do it, now that I think about it) a browser when I was upgrading the other day that was written in, if I recall, tk/tcl. And of course there's alway, always lynx, because sometimes you really need to surf the web from the command line.
Anyway, MSFT Corps history is enough to justify an awful lot of 'smear'. Just a blank recitation of their history would sound like a smear campaign.
Here's 150 pages of pure IT historical yummy goodness: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm
A very enlightening read.
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