Linux's Role In Microsoft's Decline 532
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nerdyH writes "As early as last quarter, Microsoft admitted that Linux and netbooks were eating into its fat profits. Recently, it came home, with the software giant announcing its first-ever layoffs. LinuxDevices interviewed Linux Foundation Director Jim Zemlin on Linux's role in Microsoft's misfortunes. Zemlin sums it up pretty well: 'Companies can offer their own branded software platform based on Linux. If Microsoft is getting 75 percent margins, you would like some of that high-margin business, too.'"
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Net Applications confirms it!
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"Windows 7 isn't leaner. It just feels a bit better, and then that is only because it is being compared mainly to Vista."
You wouldn't know it from the press lately... Might as well rename 7 to Microsoft Obama.
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He didn't write "xor".