FUD from Microsoft - MS Exec: Linux Is Going Down

Microsoft thinks Linux is doomed, and predicts that many Linux businesses will falter and fail before the end of the year.

I can't help but wonder whether or not the FUD is due to the fact that:

Lately, Microsoft has vacillated between dismissing Linux entirely and seeing it as a vast and looming threat on the competitive landscape.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in a presentation given to Morgan Stanley Dean Witter earlier this month, said, "I think you have to rate competitors that threaten your core higher than you rate competitors where you're trying to take from them. So in some senses (that) puts the Linux phenomenon and the Unix phenomenon at the top of the list."

So my take on this is that Linux is seen as a threat within MS and a worthy enough competitor to rubbish.