A kinder, gentler Microsoft
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Talk on the campaign trail can get pretty rough, especially when the debate pits open source against Microsoft 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."