An invade, divide, and conquer Grand Plan
Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself. Learn more
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support. Learn more
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux. Learn more
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys. Learn more
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft. Learn more
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy. Learn more
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Google said,
May 2, 2008 at 12:46 pm
IMHO, MS should consider spending more time and money on Windows and Office their main cash cow rather than trying to chase Yahoo/Google
GNU/Linux is getting stronger everyday…
Google said,
May 2, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Its very bad thing to burn up all your cash reserves and go in debt when you have two heat seeking missiles on your tail (Linux/MacOS)
Roy Schestowitz said,
May 2, 2008 at 1:08 pm
They have no choice, but they will be having long-term issues either way. If they can’t catch up with SaaS, they want to kill it (like they did Netscape when they saw potential for Web-based applications in the mid-nineties), but it’s too late this time around,
Watch how they call their old buddy David Kirkpatrick for damage control.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/02/technology/Kirkpatrick_Microsoft.fortune/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
He always glorifies them.
Google said,
May 2, 2008 at 1:11 pm
My advise to Yahoo stock holders - take the money and run !
Google said,
May 2, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Microsoft lately cant even get a service pack out
Roy Schestowitz said,
May 2, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Actually, the amusing part of this saga is that they won’t release it because some rather obscure Microsoft software lost compatibility. Rest assured many other programs ‘broke’, but Microsoft doesn’t care about those ‘third party’ pests; if it weren’t its own program, it would just let it be. SP1 of Vista is already guaranteed to break a lot more software and do nothing positive to compatibility (compared to RTM).