CNET News: Microsoft and Novell’s Concession to Tech Reality

“I knew that this would be a strange day.

“On the ride over to Microsoft’s impromptu press conference, the
taxi driver began riffing about how rainy days were good for
sleeping in and watching porn.

“A few minutes later, I had a front-row seat to watch Steve
Ballmer publicly put the final coda on a decade of dispute in the
computer industry as he posed for a handshake with Ron Hovsepian,
his opposite number at Novell…”

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