Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 18th May 2007 22:17 UTC
Some of the changes in the upcoming release of Windows Server 2008 are a response to features and performance advantages that have made Linux an attractive option to Microsoft customers. One of these is the fact that Linux has less of a surface area, which led customers to believe that Linux is inherently more secure, Bill Laing, the general manager for Microsoft's Windows Server division, told eWEEK. "Having less surface area does reduce the servicing and the amount of code you have running and exposed, so we have done a lot of work in 2008 to make the system more modular. There are more than 30 components not installed by default, which is a huge change," Laing said. "We also have server core, which doesn't have the GUI, so I would say that is a response to the options people had with Linux that they didn't have with Windows."
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Every company tries different tactics and 'copies' competitors in areas where its ideas didn't succeed. It's easy to say a small company with 1 idea is innovative if it lucks out, but any company as big and varied as MS is going to have an equal share of bad ideas, borrowed ideas and good ideas, but be obtuse.
And as far as China and India not using MS because of the US Govt, the US Govt has no legal authority to modify the Windows Source, also windows NT source has been leaked and I have not seen one report of anything that would justify this paranoia, not surprisingly because it is paranoia akin to thinking UFOs visit you, but that's not obvious to most people because OS's are too complicated for most of them. MS being a US company didn't stop Iraq from using it, nor many other US enemies and rivals, so ranting and raving China will be the end of MS is again, obtuse, MS could sell Windows for virtually nothing in China and India if necessary just to get market share and still make more money than they are now which is more than good enough, considering that's more than any other software company.