A Microsoft booster from Directions on Microsoft (Matt Rosoff, who left them last year only to promote Microsoft, as a seemingly-independent writer) started to spread some more GNU/Linux FUD last week. We have already given many examples, some of which well covered in this site, where he was advancing Microsoft agenda and this is just his latest (no links given as that would only feed a provocateur). Brian Proffitt, whose defence against this is weak (he helps validate the false allegations), neglects to mention the conflict of interest from this shameless Microsoft booster who now pretends to be a journalist. The only proper responses we have found so far help show that this FUD also got echoed by other Microsoft boosters such as Ed Bott. We were going to just ignore this FUD rather than give it any visibility. However, rebuttals have already been posted (around Monday), so we might as well give links to those:
Whereas said documents used to include Linux as a primary threat to Windows -- alongside Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) -- Redmond's documents now reportedly don't mention any competitive threat from desktop Linux at all, according to a recent article on Business Insider, which cites a tweet by Directions on Microsoft's Wes Miller.
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Of course, embedded Linux is still acknowledged as a problem in that arena -- not to mention servers, of course -- but author Matt Rosoff (formerly with Directions on Microsoft as well, it most certainly should be noted) comes to a very happy conclusion anyway: "So much for all those predictions that Linux would kill Windows," he writes.
Sure, on the desktop, it’s a Windows world, but guess what Sherlock; the desktop is declining in importance. The mobile, server, Web and cloud worlds are where the twenty-teens’ billionaires will come from, not the desktop. And, guess, who’s already in all those spaces large and in charge? Yes, that’s right, Linux.
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Agent_Smith
2011-08-16 14:02:08
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-08-16 14:12:57
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2011-08-16 14:55:46
My favorite development is Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility, which I see more as a rescue of an independent competitor than a validation of patents. Microsoft wanted to buy MM probably to do to them what they have done to Nokia. I doubt that Microsoft had the money for that but I expect good things to come from MM now. Like Google's thwarted spectrum purchases and thwarted patent purchases, Google's ownership of a pile of patents will be more of a demonstration of a hopeless broken state than it is a validation. The Microsoft/Apple extortion campaign through proxies like IV will continue until the patent system is dismantled or the aggressors go bankrupt. Biski already eliminated business method patents and courts are eliminating them but the aggressors have only stepped up their efforts.