<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(77,77,77);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:13px;line-height:19px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:800">I am entertained by this so called "Microsoft’s official company statement in response to the Open Source Vs Proprietary Software"</span></div>
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<b>From Linux Foundation >>> For the first time, Microsoft appears on list of companies that are contributing to the Linux kernel. </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(77,77,77);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:13px;line-height:19px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">Ranking at number 17, the company that once called Linux a “cancer,” today is working within the collaborative development model to support its virtualization efforts and its customers. Because Linux has reached a state of ubiquity, in which both the enterprise and mobile computing markets are relying on the operating system, Microsoft is clearly working to adapt.</span></span><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#4d4d4d" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height:19px"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#4d4d4d" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height:19px">Truly, times have changed in the software world. Microsoft is playing catch up..</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#4d4d4d" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height:19px"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#4d4d4d" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height:19px">I guess this statement was responding to this article <a href="http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000066158&story_title=state-warned-on-ditching-copyrighted-software">http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000066158&story_title=state-warned-on-ditching-copyrighted-software</a> where one of their staff made outrageous statements.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#4d4d4d" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height:19px"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#4d4d4d" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height:19px">Luckily, today, users know better!</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#4d4d4d" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height:19px"><br></span></font></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Lavinniah Muthoni (Human Capital Synergies) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:v-lavinm@microsoft.com" target="_blank">v-lavinm@microsoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Please see below Microsoft’s official company statement in response to the Open Source Vs Proprietary Software.<u></u><u></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">The open source versus proprietary software debate is no longer relevant. Most customers today operate diverse environments and simply want their technology to work together well, hence the need to focus on interoperability.
At Microsoft, w<span style>e help customers optimize their existing IT infrastructure while also transitioning to new technologies.
</span>We help solve their interoperability challenges and find efficient and cost effective solutions for their mixed IT environments.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Microsoft’s commitment to ‘openness’ also supports developers and partners. We have built close partnerships with the PHP, Apache, and Linux open source communities. (According to the
<a href="http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2012/04/linux-foundation-releases-annual-linux-development-report" target="_blank">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Linux Foundation</span></a>, Microsoft is ranked as a top contributor to Linux.)
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<p class="MsoNormal">Customers are at the heart of our approach. We enable customers to deploy and manage solutions in environments that integrate Microsoft and open source technologies. Multiple engineering teams at Microsoft actively participate in open source
projects and share the common industry view that software users will continue to see a mixed IT and development environment for years to come<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.2pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Lavinniah Muthoni | Public Relations & Events Manager | Microsoft East and Southern Africa | Phone</span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">
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