ZDNet: Microsoft’s Best Defense Against Linux

“A self-described closet geek, Taylor used to break apart his
Commodore 64 and rewrite his own games. ‘But I used my hacking
skills for good, not evil,’ Taylor said. He spoke with CNET
News.com on the eve of the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San
Francisco.

“Q: Considering Linux’s momentum, it doesn’t seem
Microsoft has yet come up with an answer on how to turn back the
tide.

“A: This may disappoint you, but I hope we don’t say, ‘This is
why Linux is bad and Microsoft is good.’ That’s not the direction
that I want to head. I want to say, ‘Listen, companies are now
taking decisions across the stack. They might deploy Linux as a
single-purpose server; they might move off Unix and try to deploy
Linux in a variety of ways; but at the end of the day enterprises
are looking at the stack.’ They either want to move Linux up the
stack or they want to do different things…”

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