“Microsoft still considers AOL Time Warner a primary competitor
despite the media giant’s recent travails, Microsoft CEO Steve
Ballmer told CRN late Tuesday.“‘AOL is still on the list. . . . It’s fun to see the other guy
hiccuping, but it’s still ‘the’ franchise in the United States.
Most people in the this country when asked how they access the
Internet, say they do so via AOL,’ he said.“Linux remains a huge factor as well, he said. The open-source
code operating system remains a ‘tough competitive force… It’s
non-traditional, it’s free and it’s cheap. We have to educate
people why what they pay for [our offerings] is more than offset by
the value we deliver. We used to be the cheap guys. We were cheaper
than Novell, cheaper than Oracle. We can’t do that with this one,’
Ballmer said…”
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