Ballmer: Microsoft Losing More Than Winning Against Linux

Posted by tadelste on Oct 20, 2005 12:22 PM EDT
ComputerBusiness Review; By Jason Stamper 		Mail this story
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Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer was on good form during a Q&A session with an audience at a Gartner Symposium in Florida yesterday, having the audience in stitches on more than one occasion, as well as coming out with the kind of marketing speak wont to baffle and enlighten in equal measure.

Asked for his thoughts on the fact that when it comes to platform migrations, more people are moving from Unix to Linux than from Unix to Windows, he conceded that: "We're not winning more than we're losing." Which is a roundabout way of conceding that it's losing to Linux more often than winning.

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