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More than 90 percent of the world's personal computers run on Microsoft software. For Orlando Ayala, that was not enough.
No wonder Ayala is worried: their market share has just one direction it can go.
MS sure is getting desperate lately.
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Chris O'Rourke, a Microsoft employee, described attending Linux World, a trade fair in California, where he "purported to be an independent computer consultant working with several K-12 school districts," according to his e-mail, which was sent on Aug. 20 last year. K-12 schools include students from ages to 5 to 18.
"Ha!" O'Rourke wrote in the e-mail to his colleagues, referring to his assumed identity. "In general, people bought this without question ... hook, line and sinker."
O'Rourke said his goal was to glean intelligence about the competition. His guise, he said, "got folks to open up and talk." O'Rourke did not respond to a fax and voice-mail message seeking comment.
I sure hope he got a big fat bonus for that bit of clever thinking.
WHUDDA DUMB-ASS! They
still don't get it do they? :confused: Linux is
Open Source; there are no secrets. All this fucktard had to do was log-on to Google and "glean" all the "intelligence" he could ever hope to get from going to a Linux conference and pretending to be something he was not. Not that it would have mattered much. They probably would have told him anyway had he just admitted he was a MS employee. WTF
does he think they do at Linux World anyway? :rolleyes: If this O'Rourke asshole is in any way representative of the intellectual quality of MS employees, then MS is in some BIG trouble.
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Part of the company's strategy, the Microsoft document says, is to emphasize to customers the pitfalls of the open-source movement.
Then why does M$ have to give
their soft away? :confused:
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A strategy to 'tip the scales'Ayala sent his memo at 8:17 a.m. on Tuesday, July 16, 2002. In addition to Ballmer, the recipients included the heads of major departments - Jim Allchin and Jeff Raikes, both vice presidents - some of the company's top lawyers and the general managers of Microsoft operations in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Ayala said in the memo that in the "difficult economic environment," some institutions and companies were focusing on cheaper software.
Ayala said, "It is important that we have a way to address large PC purchases that involve low-cost/no-cost competitors in the education (and government) sectors, especially in emerging markets."
The solution, he said, was to "tip the scales" toward Microsoft in these deals by using the special fund that he called the "Education and Government Incentive Program."
The fund was to be used "only in deals we would lose otherwise," Ayala said.
Now that's a
brilliant plan! And just how long do you think it will take for
every deal to become deals that "...we would lose otherwise..."?
Or how long to figure out that their soft is so crappy that can't sell it for their asking price?
Once again, Microsoft has shown itself to be Microsoft's worst enemy.
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
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[ May 21, 2003: Message edited by: jtpenrod ]
