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Ubuntu is A Microsoft Product Now!
News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat Jul 4, 2009 11:32 AM EDT
Article Source: linuxologist.comadvertisement
Well at least according to Dell's website. A 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 8GB of disk space armed with Microsoft's latest masterpiece: Ubuntu!
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{"commentId":8022851,"authorDomain":"mightyblogger"}
Forgot to tag this humor as the linked article is tagged ;)
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- 4 votes
#1 - Sat Jul 4, 2009 11:55 AM EDT{"commentId":8023741,"authorDomain":"curiousg"}
While, I'm glad it isn't so, I wouldn't have been surprised. MS has a history of buying it's most successful products and viable competitors.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":8023855,"authorDomain":"mightyblogger"}
The goal is to buy their developers who make the products...
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":8024008,"authorDomain":"curiousg"}
Yep, and then indoctrinate them in the error of their ways!
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":8024152,"authorDomain":"djd"}
Humour tag added (limey style I'm afraid :))
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":8026031,"authorDomain":"janeway77"}
Yikes! I read the title of the article and said to myself, "Self, that's awful. I guess Ubuntu is over now."
Glad to see it was a "humor" type article poking fun at Dell's website.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":8027313,"authorDomain":"lacto"}
MS has a history of buying it's most successful products
MS didn't buy Windows or Office, which I think most would agree are their most successful products. I suppose you could argue that they have bought pieces that have gone in to each product but I think that's a bit of a stretch.
Disclosure: I work for Microsoft but I do not speak for the company.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8028167,"authorDomain":"curiousg"}
Perhaps I should have been clearer in stating their most successful technologies rather than successful products (in the market place).
I only wish Bill hadn't gotten his shorts in a knot with IBM over the OS/2 interface. OS/2 was a far superior OS. Bill will absolutely be noted as one of the best marketers in history.
That said, I do have to give MS props on Bing. I'm absolutely amazed this came out of Redmond.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8033961,"authorDomain":"starseeker"}
oh CuriousG ... OS/2 was crap laden with IBM baggage with one intent... to remain subservient to the MF and progenate revenue for IBM. Thank BillG and MS for splitting with IBM who remains the "Evil Empire" of the computing industry even though successfully throwing that mantle to Microsoft.
BTW Bill finished his education at IBM and employed many of the IBM tricks to build Microsoft's business. All the while Microsoft is carrying the "Monopoly" moniker IBM is raping the industry for billions more than Microsoft ever made. All you have to do is look at the published revenues of the two over the decades to see that.
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{"commentId":8035024,"authorDomain":"curiousg"}
Beg to differ on OS/2. IBM didn't quite know how to do UI's (should have hired some Apple folks), but they did know how to do file systems and real multitasking OS's.
You're 100% correct about Bill taking over the mantle as the King of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) from IBM in the marketing department. It's such an unfortunate fact that fear sells. That and a few strong arm tactics with HW manufacturers.
I really don't want to turn the rest of the thread into a MS bash.
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