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Everything OK with Microsoft? Windows giant admits it was ‘on the wrong side of history’ with regard to open source | Richard Speed discusses how far Microsoft has moved from the days when Steve Ballmer said ‘Linux is a cancer’.
“Microsoft,” said [Microsoft President Brad] Smith during a chat hosted by MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), “was on the wrong side of history when open source exploded at the beginning of the century and I can say that about me personally.”
He added: “The good news is that, if life is long enough, you can learn… that you need to change.”
What a different company.
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Gartner Predicts IT Spending Will Plummet By $300 Billion In 2020 As CIOs Slash Budgets | Martin Giles reports on Gartner numbers:
In a new report, research firm Gartner says it thinks global tech spending will drop 8% in 2020 based on what it is hearing from tech suppliers and other sources. It’s forecasting that $3.46 trillion will be spent on IT products…
