[citation][nom]Anonymous[/nom]There isn't much more market share for Micro$oft to gain any more. Even if this does succeed and they gain what market share linux has now, they will have no where to go but down from there.This looks like a joke to me. Stripped functionality? How is that even a logical selling point? Linux even in its basic form has 100 times the functionality of any M$ product not to mention taking less resources. .NET? Hardly necessary unless like stated above you are a Windows based software designer. Linux is always offered free no matter what distribution it is. It has to be under the Open-Source licence. It is the service you pay for, which is still cheaper than using Windows.[/citation]
That linux is always a cheaper choice, while common, is false. The actual software ofcourse is cheaper than microsoft's, but the overall cost isn't nessecarily a selling point. In the company where I work, it would increase running costs by a considerable margin if we were to replace all our windows servers, or desktops, with linux. Also we'd have to work a lot harder to make it a secure platform.
A stripped windows isn't the point of this article. The point is a stripped price
the functionality loss is just to avoid loosing too many high end licenses.