Linux's Role In Microsoft's Decline 532
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".