Microsoft has spent a lot of time attacking Linux recently, but the company
has learned and benefited from the rival operating system. Linux's success in
low-end servers led the company to revise its server product line, said Doug
Miller, director of competitive strategy for Microsoft's Windows division. And
Microsoft learned that it needs better interactions with the programmers who use
Microsoft products. "Any competing technology is good for the industry. It
causes us to evaluate our own offerings," he said in an interview at the
LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.
"Linux has been a catalyst for doing that at Microsoft."
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