Microsoft's Highly Confidential GNU/Linux Share Figures (2003)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2009-01-08 14:47:52 UTC
- Modified: 2009-01-09 00:40:49 UTC
Antitrust exhibit unleashed
According to Microsoft's own intelligence, almost 20% of the organisations in Brazil intended to move to GNU/Linux in 2003. Is that why Microsoft sends lackeys over there [1, 2]?
Microsoft calls this "Linux Heat Map." It pretty much contradicts claims that Microsoft is not bothered by desktop GNU/Linux.

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That's Microsoft
own estimation and that's just for desktops in 2003. GNU/Linux has gained a lot since.
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"[If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?] Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have to go with that."
--Steve Ballmer (Microsoft's CEO), February 28th, 2008
Update: Here it is in
ODF format, thanks to a reader who transcribed it by hand. Some of the numbers were hard to make out, so the reader would not claim 100% accuracy.
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