LinuxWorld Australia: Microsoft Faces a Serious Open Source Press

[ Thanks to Jason Greenwood for this link. ]

"If there's one thing I learned from my recent sojourn into the depths of Microsoft's future vision, it's that the concept and popularity of open source software has shaken Redmond to its core. Much of this new vision is the direct result of how Linux and open source have galvanized Redmond's management team. This is why Microsoft has upped the feature ante on so many platforms at once: to overwhelm customers with new technologies you simply can't get from open source..."

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