Microsoft to Linux: 'Bring it on'

[Nomad559]

http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5196651.html

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The increasing popularity of open source on the desktop will drive Microsoft to create better products in response, the software giant said Wednesday.

Bradley Tipp, Microsoft's national system engineer, told the LinuxUser & Developer Expo in London that competition is good for the whole software industry and will lead to better products emerging from Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft.

"The thing I like is that Microsoft does its best work and is most innovative when it has competition, so bring it on," Tipp said.

Tipp's comments were the flipside to the view expressed Tuesday by Matt Asay, director of Linux business at Novell, when he asserted that the lack of alternative desktop operating systems had given Microsoft little incentive to improve its software range.

[Madrone]

1. Well Jesus H. Keerist.

<<<will drive Microsoft to create better products in response, the software giant said Wednesday.>>>

Better late than never, Bill. Better late than never!!

[kalian]

2. Open source community to Microsoft....

careful what you wish for... :evilgrin:

[Madrone]

3. Maybe Microsoft was finally infected?

By the "viral nature" of OSS? Heh - we can only hope! Software that WORKS, how novel!

Maybe copping BSD code for their tcp/ip stack is what they call "new" and "innovative?"

:7

[LastKnight]

4. later that day...

8 of microsoft's troops died in the desert due to linux's insurgents who hate freedom.

oops, wrong war...

-LK

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

5. Tough way to go...

pecked to death by sand penguins.

[sendero]

6. If competition is so good...

.... why has TinyFlaccid made a company policy of thwarting it at every opportunity?

[SmileyBoy]

7. I'm hesitant to criticize Microsoft all the time, because...

...they're the lifeblood of my city's white-collar job market. Microsoft's Fargo offices are the 2nd-largest Microsoft headquarters in the world behind the complex in Redmond. The Fargo offices are actual headquarters, not a place to station soon-to-be outsourced help-desk people.

If it wasn't for Microsoft, we'd still be a cowtown.