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