MaximumLinux is reporting on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s recent remarks at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter’s Internet, Software and Networking Conference ‘…I think you have to rate competitors that threaten your core higher than you rate competitors where you’re
trying to take from them,” he said. “So in some senses it puts the Linux phenomenon and the Unix
phenomenon at the top of the list. That really is job one for us, because that’s the threat to the Windows
business…’