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Linux Peanut Gallery Razzes Microsoft Transition

Posted by dcparris on · 3 comments
CRN; By Barbara Darrow 		Mail this story
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Last week's Microsoft succession news sparked an array of definitely NOT-for-attribution-comments from those who've watched the company forever. Face it, few tech execs have been as demonized as Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. Well maybe Steve Ballmer, his CEO, but I digress.

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Comments (3)

mvermeer ·
> Face it, if Microsoft wasn't around to abuse, we'd have to make it up.

Face it, we wouldn't have to make up anything. Sun, Oracle, IBM, ... would be happy to help us out :-)
tuxchick2 ·
But it's hard to imagine any of them being world-class weenies like Microsoft. At least Sun, Oracle and IBM ship good products. Dominating the market with pure crap is...well, I guess that's a noteworthy achievement, after all.
dinotrac ·
Hey! TC, Excel is pretty darned good. SQL Server used to be pretty darned good, and I hear it still is, but haven't been near it in a long while. Microsoft Word for DOS was a pretty darned good word processor.

So...

Whether or not Microsoft can actually DEVELOP any good products, they have shipped a few.

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