Microsoft drops bomb on Linux-loving minions--er, partners

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/columns/0,4351,396047,00.html


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Microsoft drops bomb on Linux-loving minions--er, partners

Spencer F. Katt
March 22, 1999 PCweek online
        
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Microsoft is still lobbing some missiles on its business partners,
antitrust trial be damned. At Intel's Pentium III Xeon launch last week,
a group of vendors had planned to demonstrate the performance of Pentium
III Xeon-equipped systems from Gateway and Micron running Oracle8--and
Red Hat Linux. When Microsoft heard that two of its primary OEMs were
planning to run Linux in public, the Redmondians dusted off their
thumbscrews and convinced Gateway and Micron to pull out of the demo
unless Windows NT took the place of Linux. Guess which operating system
won out?

[snip]

-- 
James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
I can be reached at love@cptech.org, by telephone 202.387.8030,
by fax at 202.234.5176. CPT web page is http://www.cptech.org