[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“Microsoft Corp announced a trio of European government contract
wins on Tuesday, the latest salvo in the growing turf battle
between the software giant and vendors of the upstart Linux
software.“The U.S. software giant would not disclose financial terms of
the deals, which it said it won after competing head-to-head for
the business with various Linux vendors.“Microsoft said it would deploy its signature Windows server and
desktop software on thousands of computers for the city governments
in Frankfurt, the Latvian capital of Riga and Turku in Finland.“For the past year, an intense battle has been raging across
Europe as more corporations and government agencies turn to the
open-source Linux software to run their desktop and network
computer systems…”