Microsoft's president and CEO (Steve Ballmer) has publicly stated that he considers Linux to be his company's #1 problem. In this article at TechWeb, Paula Rooney reports on comments recently made by Ballmer regarding the threat posed by Linux. Rooney writes . . .

“Speaking at an Internet conference hosted by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Steve Ballmer said that both Unix and Linux threaten Windows' stronghold in the marketplace, but that the latter is the bigger headache . . .”

” . . . 'I think you have to rate competitors that threaten your core higher than you rate competitors where you're trying to take from them,' Ballmer said. 'It puts the Linux phenomenon and the Unix phenomenon at the top of the list. I'd put the Linux phenomenon really as threat No. 1' . . .”

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