Posted on 08/15/2011 6:06:08 AM PDT by ShadowAce
It seems Matt Rosoff is having a little bit of snark over Microsoft apparently disregarding Linux as a threat to its desktop business.
The schadenfreude stems from a tweet from Wes Miller, Research VP at Directions on Microsoft, which points out that Microsoft's boilerplate from its last two annual SEC filings has some interesting revisions, as seen here.
Predictably, Rosoff pours salt on the wound by off-handedly cackling about Jim Zemlin's comments earlier this year that taking on Microsoft would be like "kicking a puppy."
To be fair, Rosoff did a little digging in the same SEC filings and discovered that Linux was still present in the documents, most notably as competition in the server and embedded spaces.
First off, let's be clear: in the passage Miller and Rosoff gleefully cite, Google is still mentioned as competition on the desktop. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Google's desktop offering ChromeOS actually Linux?
Why yes, yes it is.
So, while Microsoft seems to be sweeping the Linux problem under the rug, anyone with half a brain can see that Linux is still a threat here, if not in actual name.
I would be dishonest if I were to suggest that at this time ChromeOS has significant market share against Windows. Frankly, no operating system does. But Linux is still in Microsoft's radar, never fear.
And I wonder what Microsoft's mobile section of its SEC filings will say in the face of yesterday's news that Windows Phone 7 2Q sales are so bad they've slipped below that of Samsung's in-house platform Bada? Bada, ladies and gentlemen, Bada is selling better at 1.9 percent than Windows Phone 7's 1.6 percent, with Android sitting on top for the same quarter at 43.4 percent.
Gee, that's awfully bad news, considering that "IBM engineer Mark Dean, who was on the team that built the first IBM PC, says the PC era is basically over." I would point these stories out to Rosoff, but it seems he actually wrote the stories to which I just linked.
Let me see if I have got this straight: Linux, according to Microsoft, has lost on the desktop, even though one of its cited competitors uses Linux. Meanwhile, a lot of smart people (besides just Dean) are pointing at mobile (tablets and smartphones) as the Next Platform, and right now Windows' mobile offering can't get mobile traction to save its life, while a Linux-based OS is kicking butt and taking names on smartphones and isn't doing too bad on tablets.
Boy, I'm so glad Rosoff is here to point such things out to me. Otherwise I might actually be worried.
Linus was a SECONDARY, LESS IMPORTANT character on the comic strip "Peanuts".
COINCIDENCE????????????????
I have to agree with Microsoft here. Linux isn’t a threat to its DESKTOP business.
Linux is a threat to Microsoft’s business everyplace else though.
Phone OS
Embedded OS
Pad OS
Server OS
As I’ve pointed out here before, my TV actually runs Linux. My GPS also runs Linux. This is the expanding market for operating systems, not desktop computers.
I have used PURE LOGIC to defeat you.
MS is the same as Muscular Sclerosis.
COINCIDENCE?????????????
You never had a chance, though. Against an overpowering mind like mine, coupled with my perfect-logic points, you never had a chance.
Gates dropped out of college.
While your logic and reasoning is most impressive, I would point out that it is called MULTIPLE Sclerosis, meaning that your entire premise was invalid.
Q.E.D.
Give me credit for trying, though.
Yet, cancer is not cured.
You aren't much good at logic, are you? Allow me to demonstrate:
Gates dropped out of college.
Gates and Windows are something one goes through to get to a desired location.
See? Now THAT is LOGIC.
Drat. I knew my lack of caffeine this morning would hurt me later on today.
Tablets are the future. Most people just need to consume data and that’s a great device for consuming info. The designers may still need a full blown desktop environment to design tools and widgets for the tablets.
And once that shift is underway, next who knows. More kinect like interactivity with holograhic projections or something like minority report.
None of those even consider running Windows for their real work. It is consigned to the desktop, where its damage can be contained.This is utter nonsense. Most enterprise software typically runs on Windows. Some use Solaris and Java on servers.
Windows break, and gates are what burglars go through to steal your stuff.
Windows is the best operating system in the world, bar none. Linux starts with the letter L. Loser starts with the letter L. COINCIDENCE?????????????
Lazamataz starts with the letter L.
Just sayin' . . .
Sorry--I'm speaking from first-hand knowledge and experience.
Impressive logic, young Skywalker. But you are not a Jedi YET.
The L is silent.
So--You're an "az" ?
I am the greatest Az on Ree Epublic.
Ergo, Linux is porn.
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