Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner better watch out because Linux activists will be banging down his door and throwing stink bombs and rotten eggs to make his life more difficult. He’s recently had some some strong words for Google and Linux vendors looking to carve into the software dynasty and this coming from someone who started off in Wal-Mart as a cashier and ended up their CEO after 20 years. Well, here’s my queue for you from the Linux Lovers – “we’re ready for anything from Microsoft”
"We're not going to let Google win in the enterprise space. That's our house, our market space," said the 40-year-old Turner, the former Wal-Mart CIO whose tough talk elicited cheers from hundreds of Microsoft partners gathered for the closing keynote at Microsoft's partner conference Thursday in Boston.
"Then we've got Novell, Linux, Red Hat and other competitors. We're going after IBM and Google," Turner said. "We're going to win because we have a better solution, better total cost of ownership. We're going to get at the competition."
Linux, Google Gets Some Harsh Words from Microsoft COO source
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