[Am-info] A kinder, gentler Microsoft ...........

[Fred A. Miller]

SAN FRANCISCO - Talk on the campaign trail can get pretty rough, 
especially when the debate pits open source against Microsoft Corp. 
software. But now, Microsoft says, the gloves are back on, though the 
company has pledged to take the invective out of its talking points 
about Linux and open-source software.

Instead, Microsoft representatives plan to debate the relative merits of 
Windows and open-source software such as Linux using facts instead of 
emotionally charged statements. That's according to Martin Taylor, 
Microsoft's general manager of platform strategy who was appointed in 
July. It's Taylor's job to direct Microsoft's thinking about 
open-source products. "It is not a religious discussion; it is a 
business model discussion," Taylor says. "We kind of defaulted (to 
emotion in the past) because we could not think about Linux in the 
right way."

http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/18/HNgentlerfight_1.html

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"...Linux, MS-DOS, and Windows XP (also known as the Good, the Bad, and
the Ugly)."