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To: DiViT who wrote (56433)	3/2/2001 12:08:43 PM
From: Joseph Pareti	Respond to of 74651

good news for our teddy bears friends --- "The strong are getting stronger," said Dan Kusnetzky, vice president of IDC's Operating Environments research. "In what could have easily been a tough year for Microsoft because of its transition to Windows 2000, the company managed to increase its position in both the client and the server operating environments market." IDC: MICROSOFT STRENGTHENS ITS GRIP 03.02.01 COMMERCIAL NEWS HPCwire ============================================================================== Framingham, MA -- Microsoft's battle with the Justice Department has not in any way weakened its grip in the client operating environment market or its leading position in the server operating environment market. In fact, during 2000, Windows strengthened its hold on both the desktop and server. According to IDC, Windows accounted for 41% of server operating environment (SOE) shipments and an overwhelming 92% of shipments for the client operating environment (COE). "The strong are getting stronger," said Dan Kusnetzky, vice president of IDC's Operating Environments research. "In what could have easily been a tough year for Microsoft because of its transition to Windows 2000, the company managed to increase its position in both the client and the server operating environments market." Not only did Microsoft increase its SOE shipments, it increased them at a rate significantly faster than the overall market. According to IDC, Microsoft's SOE shipments jumped 20% in 2000 while the overall market's growth was less than 13%. With 24% growth, Linux was the only other category of operating environment to increase its shipments faster than Microsoft - or to increase its shipments at all. Sun was the only bright spot in the Unix market. On the desktop, the story was one of slowing growth, but enormous dominance by Microsoft. Only Windows and Linux increased their shipments. Windows 98/98 SE shipments were 36% more than the prior year, while Windows 95 shipments fell off dramatically. Linux remains a bit player with less than 2% market share, although growth was up by 25%. Overall, Microsoft's Windows 9x and Me operating environment shipments were only up by 8%, yet the company increased its market share by almost 3 percentage points. "The general trend for client operating environments continues to be consolidation around 32-bit operating systems and applications," Kusnetzky said. "Unfortunately for competitors of Microsoft, this consolidation also means a general movement to Windows platforms." Linux, though, continues to garner backing from some big guns in the IT industry, helping to drive its growth. IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell are all shipping workstations and low-end servers with the Linux operating environment. "Critics and nonbelievers can no longer dismiss the Linux market as a fad," said Al Gillen, research manager for IDC's Operating Environments program. "If leading hardware vendors are willing to risk their credibility by endorsing and placing Linux systems in the market, it's easy for customers to conclude there must be something real about Linux." IDC recently published Server Operating Environments: 2000 Year in Review (IDC ##B23731) and Client Operating Environments: 2000 Year in Review (IDC ##B23849). The bulletins discuss trends in the server and client operating environment markets during 2000. Shipments are compared by vendor and platform for 1999 and 2000. The bulletins also discuss trends likely to affect the market in 2001. To purchase either bulletin, contact Cheryl Toffel at 1-800-343-4952, extension 4389, or at ctoffel@idc.com. 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To: DiViT who wrote (56433)	3/2/2001 12:09:46 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

JUDGE DENIES BIAS AGAINST "GUILTY MICROSOFT BASTARDS" "My Published Comments About Those Evil Pricks Were Misconstrued," Jackson Says Now THAT'S funny. Thank you for the find.

To: DiViT who wrote (56433)	3/2/2001 8:01:08 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 74651

Ya know, 600 Billion for Y2k, 1.5 Billion for highways in Senator Byrd's West Virginia that go nowhere, 60 Million for Starr so that no one would notice, 35 Million for the MS trial to allow Denmark to have the primary o/s, a billion here and a billion there, pretty soon it mounts up: :)) Kellogs Special K 10-Pack is held to be "bundling": 3wk.com actually they do go to a secret underground bunker for the congress in case of a nuclear war or if the democrats get control of the Senate which cost 2 Billion to build but since it is secret the funds came out of the School budget so no one would know.