Software Wars – Microsoft versus the World

by Mark on April 9, 2008

Software Wars

The 451 Group’s Raven Zachary recently used this slide at an address in Redmond during Microsoft Open Source Day. It’s an illustration that portrays Microsoft versus the rest of the world done by Steven Hilton. Mario Madden from Microsoft’s Port 25 has a nice riff on the the fact that for Microsoft to be taken seriously in the open source community and play by the rules. Such as operating transparently. He acknowledges that this is how many people perceive Microsoft and does a nice job speaking to how Microsoft is trying to be more transparent in their dealings. Of course big ships turn slowly …

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