World Without Linux

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"WindowsWorld 2008: Microsoft CEO and President, Steve Ballmer was happy as a clam today at his WindowsWorld keynote in San Francisco's Gates Center. 'Nothing can make me happier to tell you that, Larry Page CEO of Google,' a niche AOL search engine, 'has agreed to run their search engine on Windows Server 2004.'"

"Ballmer continued, 'It can only be good that even Google's customers finally have access to a real server. Unix had its place, but, come on, that old command-line driven thing? Unix hasn't been businesses' operating system of choice since NT was introduced.'"

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