Although it has just been punished by the EU, although Linux impact is strong, on July 26th, when Martin Taylor, General Manager of Microsoft Platform Strategy, Martin Taylor, still appears to be confident. After this is back, you can't hide it, it is a strong high-quality of Microsoft's business software model.
I hope Microsoft can support it.
How long does Microsoft can support in the face of Linux? Currently, this software empire has no signs, Taylor also said that I hope Microsoft can stick to it. Even in the case of large IT companies such as IBM, he also believes that this does not show that Linux is really considered to be the future direction. In fact, these manufacturers are just solder to sell their hardware products.
For the low price or free impact of Linux, Taylor does not think this is a problem. He believes that users are increasingly considering overall cost (TCO), not simple product costs, consider from application and platform, manage maintenance and safety costs, users if they choose Linux platform, their cost is not If the price of the product is so low, the cost advantage of Linux is not so big. In addition, Taylor believes that users do not only look at costs, especially when deploying platform products, and considers security, reliability, interoperability, and long-term costs. That is, the user's requirements for the product are all-round. He admits that at this point, the current Microsoft and Linux have underfresh, but Microsoft is now doing, is to understand the needs of users, and then introduce products that meet these needs.
What is the characteristics of China's user needs? For the first time, Taylor cautiously said that he did not understand, and understanding these features, it was one of his purposes of his China.
Microsoft is not opposed to open source code
Microsoft's Windows is a representative product of commercial software model. Linux is the banner of open source mode. The two meet, who will be the last survivor?
"Should Microsoft is really opposite to open source code mode." Taylor said. He believes that these two modes are the way of bringing the product into the market, and there are also a way to meet user needs, and Microsoft has learned a lot from open source mode. However, he still insists that commercial software model is a survival mode.
Microsoft can hold this point of view is not surprising. According to Taylor, the last fiscal year, Microsoft put $ 6.8 billion for product technology research and development, research and development of automatic configuration, language identification and automatic translation of servers. Open source mode is difficult to provide a large amount of funding. In addition, due to the free nature of open source mode, developers rarely perform system, extensive investigations, what do users need, what is the application of users? Sometimes, Linux users have to work with software vendors.
Intellectual Property: Protection Open
To achieve commercial software model, the protection of intellectual property rights is fundamental, Microsoft is a creator. In 1976, Bill Gates was angry and published "a public letter to the computer enthusiast", and "Question" hardware must pay for payment, but the software has become a shared thing. Whoever cares, develop software Whether to pay? "After a big discussion, the source code was included in the scope of protection of intellectual property, so that the software industry truly entered the age of commercialization.
Today, Taylor is still emphasizing the protection of intellectual property, but it is not limited to "repayment", but further, talking about the sustainable development of software development: only through intellectual property protection makes code developers benefit, can we have enough The re-investment in funds is developed, and technological innovation is continuously implemented.
In fact, Microsoft provides two patent licensing to cooperative manufacturers in December 2003, and test water patent licensing methods. As for Microsoft's further open patent license, Taylor said Microsoft is considering and assessing market demand and mentions that IBM has about 1 billion US dollars in this regard. ? Reporter's opinion
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Taylor said: "It is not the era of people's emotional use of Linux."
why? What kind of era now is it now?
This is an era of user needs first. It is useless to have a feeling of light, or you can see if you can solve the problem, and it is convenient to solve it. Linux should not put your future in people's sympathy or balance Microsoft's attitude, and should really calm down, how to let users worry less, more applications.
The commercial software model is also good, open source mode mode is also, want to succeed, and ultimately want to be approved. And I want to get the user's approval, only by solving the needs of the user. When you encounter problems, users don't consider how software is written, and it will not consider what the operation mode of this software is.
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