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Who in the Hell is the 'META' Group?

Has anyone ever heard of them before?

This is either:

Someone in an unknown consulting agency asking, "How can we get a ton of free advertising? I know, make an outrageous prediction and release a 'report' to the news media!"
A trial-balloon by MS, another attempt to reach out to the independent developer community (who currently won't work with MS solutions on a bet and wiew MS the way the independent voters view the D party) thru false advertising (like the rash of recent falsified, MS-bought 'studies' showing Linux is cheaper, .NET is faster, etc). MS is clearly currently engaging in a massive media campaign of disinformation and propaganda, so this could very well just be another brick in that wall.
A sure sign that this 'META' Group is actually a crack house.

It's possible that MS will port IE, Office, or a few other pieces of software to Linux eventually. MS is the proverbial 'house of cards', most divisions operate at a massive loss which is paid for by the 85% profit margin their monopolization of the market produces.

If/when that profit margin slips, with all other divisions losing hundreds of millions a year, the entire thing will implode very, very quickly.

So eventually MS will start looking for additional revenue, and porting their software to Linux will eventually be forced on them.

But I doubt it will be soon . . . Just My Humble Opinion.

It's possible that MS will port IE, Office, or a few other pieces of software to Linux eventually. MS is the proverbial 'house of cards', most divisions operate at a massive loss which is paid for by the 85% profit margin their monopolization of the market produces.

The article is pure speculation. From the source:

"I'm unaware of any efforts at this time to move any products onto Linux," said Peter Houston, senior director at Microsoft's server group, adding that there were no plans to detach or re-price its Windows server operating system.

"We have made a bet on Windows, and we believe that customers are getting value from the bet we made," said Houston, "and we're going to continue doing what we've been doing for customers."

Finally, we agree on something.