One nice thing about Linux — it’s never boring. If the party ever starts to get slow, you can always count on something happening to liven things up. In that vein, I guess it’s our turn here at Linux Magazine to add to the excitement.
One nice thing about Linux — it’s never boring. If the party ever starts to get slow, you can always count on something happening to liven things up. In that vein, I guess it’s our turn here at Linux Magazine to add to the excitement.
For those of you who are not yet aware of it, you’re holding a semi-historically interesting magazine in your hands. Curiously, the historical aspect of this issue has nothing to do with our editorial content. No, in fact, the most unusual feature of this issue is the addition of a new advertiser to our ranks — Microsoft.
Believe me, I was as shocked as you probably are right now when the suggestion was first proposed to me.
Needless to say, when it became clear that Microsoft wanted to advertise, there was quite a bit of internal debate over the subject. Lots of questions were raised, with the most important being; “What are their reasons for wanting to do this?”
Rather than just randomly speculate however, we decided to ask Microsoft that question directly. Their answer was interesting. Apparently, they believe that one reason many ISPs and Web hosting companies began deploying Linux so widely was because Microsoft didn’t have products that were appropriate for those markets at the time, and they didn’t listen to those customers as they banged on Microsoft’s door pleading for them to pay more attention to their needs.
So their primary reason for placing the ad is to…
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