Taylor, general manager of Microsoft's Platform Strategic Department, said Microsoft does not need to use Longhorn and Linux competition. He said that from the perspective of innovation, I have got everything I need from a valuable platform. Taylor explained the strategy of Microsoft's response to Linux threats in an interview.
Q: What is the task of platform strategy group?
A: When we think that you have a good idea, it will take time to instill these ideas to customers. Then we will have a technical team. I have recruited some people from the Linux open source industry to be responsible for the operation of a R & D laboratory. Then we will use consultants in the open source area to help us develop solutions. We have 120 servers now run Linux, which can help them when our product group needs to understand Linux issues.
Our developers have been working in Microsoft for many years, and some attractive things in Linux are unclear, we will work hard to help our developers in this respect.
We have realized that we need to strengthen direct contact with our customers, especially in individual markets, as different overall cost costs like different customers, EMEA markets have different cultures and climates. Therefore, our employees perform our plan with a more localized strategy in the world.
Q: How is Longhorn? What is its progress?
A: We have announced in August that it will not contain Winfs when publishing Longhorn in 2006, and Winfs will be released later. This has caused some understanding of the acknowledgment, people have issued such a question: Do you not compete with Linux with longhorn? My answer to this question is, no, no need. From the perspective of technology and innovation, now we have obtained everything you need.
Q: Why do you need to do so much job?
A: From different perspectives, Longhorn Teacher Microsoft's huge bet, but it is related to open source, Linux, and continues to innovate with us. We are redesigning a number of elements such as message bus, interface, storage system, and we also provide methods for other products.
Q: Is there any danger that does not grow in Longhorn? Shouldn't it be more modular?
A: We think that Longhorn should support the task-based deployment, not modular. Users are not modular, but how to use technology to better complete their work. We have found that in the field of server, users expect to decompose their load, although we publish a general operating system, they need to just web servers, file servers, or high-performance computing servers.
One of Longhorn's design goals is based on task deployment.
Q: How do you view Linux in the market performance?
A: We have found that more and more customers want to buy commercial Linux, they expect to support support. Commercial Linux support and upgrade costs are much higher than Windows Server. [Said.com / Liu Yanqing]
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