Word: linux
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Gates: Certainly the worst thing that could happen is for people to be confused and think that we're not in a hypercompetitive environment. Windows is facing competition from Internet terminal devices, Linux and other things. One of the ironies of this decision is that it says there are these serious competitors coming along, and then it defines the market in such a way that those competitors don't even exist...
...government's trustbusters, Sun's strategy for ending Microsoft's dominance in desktop operating systems and applications is to move computing to the server. To encourage those who are slow to make the switch, they'll give away their applications for free. Taking a page from the Linux gang - who McNealy managed to deride as "communes" - Sun has saturated Comdex with signs touting Star Office, a suite of word processing, spreadsheet and other big applications that Sun is giving away gratis. Tens of thousands of copies of Sun's Star Office were distributed at Comdex, included one copy on each...
...venture capitalist at Accel Partners puts it, "in the past six months, we have not seen a business plan for a conventional packaged software application." Sounds surprising, perhaps, but how else could a single student from Helsinki hobble together a few thousand lines of code that turned into Linux, an operating system with millions of users currently being shipped on IBM and Compaq PC's? The only real barriers to entry in the operating systems market are a mind, a modem and, arguably, a garage...
...Microsoft--which owns more than 90% of that market--isn't a monopoly, then nobody is. Microsoft tried to argue that its Windows operating system was under constant threat and could be made obsolete at any moment. But the competitors it listed hardly seemed like giant killers. Upstart Linux, the open-source operating system that Microsoft speaks of so fearfully, currently runs less than 3% of all PCs. Even if you include Apple, which is undeniably on an upswing, Microsoft still has more than 80% of the PC market. Jackson wasn't buying...
...What can you really point to in terms of new competition?" Taylor says. "Their only rival in the PC operating-system market is Linux, and while it?s promising, it?s still beyond the reach of the common man. There?s been no fundamental shift that would make the government reconsider its case." So what do we have to look forward to after Tuesday? Another long hiatus ? in which Microsoft and the government are meant to think about settling but probably won?t ? after which the two sides will present their visions of the company?s penance (could another billion...