eWeek: Analysts: Ballmer’s Pep Talk Underrates Linux

“Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s annual e-mail update to the
Microsoft troops revealed much about the Redmond, Wash., giant’s
views on Linux and its other operating-system competition. In turn,
we asked analysts and Linux leaders what they thought of Ballmer’s
latest Linux comments.

“In the memo, Ballmer wrote, ‘We are effectively using
independent studies by Forrester Research, the Yankee Group, IDC,
Giga, BearingPoint and many others to change perceptions of the
advantages of Windows over Linux when it comes to total cost of
ownership [TCO], functionality and productivity advantages, support
and security. We need to do work like this in every business to get
customers to recognize our work and appreciate it fully…'”

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