That's just a small piece of the history. MS was extremely active in that field. For example, they were asking Gartner to bash Linux, but forgot to remove their

That's just a small piece of the history. MS was extremely active in that field. For example, they were asking Gartner to bash Linux, but forgot to remove their small print: http://lwn.net/1999/1021/bigpage.php3 http://lwn.net/1999/1021/bigpage.php3