Seopher.com: Is Microsoft Playing Into the Hands of Linux? | Linux Today

Seopher.com: Is Microsoft Playing Into the Hands of Linux?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 1, 2006

“Following my recent article on AMD possibly playing into
Intel’s hands, I pondered whether MS could be doing the same thing
for everyone’s favourite underdog. Let’s look at the facts, MS hold
a massive market majority, with Linux reserved for servers and the
educated among us who can live with command line installs. But are
times changing?

“With Vista on the horizon (apparently), it looks to throw
countless beloved home machines into the ‘outdated’ pile (a thought
vendors such as PCWorld and Ebuyer must be welcoming) but there are
more injustices in the MS camp than that…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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