It’s very ironic that just seventeen days after blogging about what I consider to be the state of Microsoft, they start making headlines. People have always wondered if Microsoft would one day somehow attack the open source community based on some sort of patent dispute. Today Microsoft went public with their intent to take on the free world. The timing of this move is really quite perfect. It’s been known for some time that Microsoft considers Linux to be a significant threat.
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The software landscape of our world is fast moving. If you look back even five years ago, it’s amazing how much has changed. Microsoft is clearly the big giant of the software world. They make all of the software we know and love, things like Windows, Office, and Outlook. Their success is so impressive, they’ve become ubiquitous. I cannot think of a single person that doesn’t have a computer powered by windows.
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