Microsoft no longer afraid of Linux, than Apple

Twice a year, Microsoft inciting results and makes predictions about the development of the market to investors on Wall Street. Here and now, as usual, Steve Ballmer showed a presentation, among which was an interesting slide with a diagram of shares of Microsoft competitors in the market and the home PC business class. What was surprising investors when the third-largest, after the pirates and the old systems of Windows, the enemy was Linux, ahead of Apple.

When asked where such a forecast, Steve sadly noted the rapidly growing market of netbooks with Linux, guaranteed the success of Android and Google, as a competitor in the market dekstopnyh systems.

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28 February 2009 | , , apple, ballmer, competitor, development, forecast, microsoft, presentation

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