Ballmer heads for Oz to staunch Telstra Windows defection (Register)

[Posted October 3, 2002 by cook]

The Register reports that Microsoft will be sending Steve Ballmer to Australia, in an effort to head off Telstra's switch to Linux. "Whatever, the real Telstra deal's already gone anyway, and the best Microsoft can now do is to the stop the backshop lockout it's already sustained from turning into a whopping loss of 45,000 desktop software licences and a massive PR triumph for whichever other company gets the gig instead. Microsoft should surely be in with a shot at avoiding this, because junking tens of thousands of Windows and Office installations and setting up an alternative (e.g. Linux-StarOffice) remains a non-trivial exercise."

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