[Enews News] The local time this Friday, the Chairman and Chief Software Designer of Microsoft Company said in a meeting in the Computer History Museum. He is not worried that Linux can eaten the market of Windows.
Gates briefly mentioned many topics including from Linux to Web services, reaching grid computing, digital copyright management. He emphasized that in addition to Linux, Microsoft has faced a number of threats to their monopoly. He said that Microsoft has had a very clear competitor in the past, and the OS / 2 operating system is generally believed to kill us.
He pointed out that employees were 10 times IBM companies that Microsoft, and they did not use OS / 2 to block Windows advancement and pace. Novell, Borland is considered to kill us, which makes my work challenges.
A listener of the meeting said that about 50% of the currently sold servers run Linux. But Gats made an objection to this figure. He said that this number is incorrect, more than 50% of the server runs the server version of the Windows operating system.
Gates said that unix is unix from Linux, not Windows. He said that we are indeed competing with Linux, and the Unix market that converts to Linux is quite visible. Windows and Linux will lead the market together.
Gates said that not all organizations are suitable for grid computing technology. He said that in view of network cost and delay, remote data processing may be uneconomical. He said that the grid can be implemented on Windows, and Microsoft has integrated the concept of grid computing in its Web services. Microsoft's Beowulf project support mesh calculation.
When it comes to spam, Gates said that with the continuous development of filtration technology, this issue is being resolved. He said that the number of spam decreased by 10 times more than one year ago. He pointed out that bad happiness is getting more and more embarrassing. Microsoft will provide solutions to malware such as ads.
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