“Today Microsoft added the final piece of a computing strategy
initially sketched out by its former chief technology officer,
Nathan Myhrvold, a decade ago: to produce operating systems
stretching from the smallest hand-held computers to the most
powerful supercomputers.”
“Microsoft’s aggressive move into the market for large corporate
computer systems, bringing it into even sharper competition with
companies like I.B.M., Sun Microsystems and Oracle, is viewed as a
significant transformation of the company by analysts, who said it
would require a fundamental change in Microsoft’s corporate culture
as well….”
“Although Mr. Ballmer was generally bullish on the company’s new
push into the very highest part of the computer business, he
acknowledged today that there remained some industry sectors where
Microsoft would have a tough time displacing its entrenched Unix
competitors like Sun and Oracle.”
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