Microsoft exec slams Linux 'Noise' in e-mail to staff
eWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft is ratcheting up the rhetoric in its battle to contain the fallout from dissatisfied customers moving to the open-source Linux operating system. Orlando Ayala, the senior vice president for Microsoft's small and midmarket solutions and partner group, sent an e-mail to all his staff late Wednesday night, telling them that "there continues to be a great deal of noise in the marketplace about the growth of Linux."
He went on to urge them to "separate hype from reality and make sure we work to understand what is really happening in the industry."