The Register: Microsoft’s Ballmer Tells Lurvely Partners to Stick It to IBM

“Steve Ballmer has lambasted IBM, Linux and SAP while exhorting
thousands of partners to bet their next 10 years on Windows and
Microsoft services.

“A pumped-up and sweating Ballmer informed Microsoft’s Worldwide
partner conference on Sunday morning that IBM is a spent
competitive challenge that is pushing sub-par software, while he
worked the crowd’s concerns over IP and patents by talking of
so-called ‘rumors’ that Linux violates more than 200
patents…”

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