Though outward appearances may indicate that Google Inc. is now Microsoft Corp.'s biggest threat, customers should not kid themselves. Microsoft still has many of its top minds working on the previous holders of that title: Linux and open source.
At its Linux and Open Source Lab in Redmond, Wash., Microsoft has a three-pronged attack to give customers and potential customers more information by testing and comparing Windows and Linux in legacy environments, the effectiveness of each platform's security patching process, and how well Microsoft is working to integrate or support open-source code in its products.
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