Microsoft does a great job of arguing why the cost of Linux is higher and it is on the first device.

Microsoft loves Linux.

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

This will give people the hope that Linux jumps in and topples Microsoft.

Cisco has sort of straddled the fence with working with Microsoft. This is another approach that moves toward a Linux-based, appliance-based model for voice applications that should fit into most businesses' strategies whether they love or hate Microsoft.

One of the most jaw-dropping ironies of the tech world of our time(AD 2014) is that about 95% of Bank ATMs worldwide did run on Windows XP purveyed by Microsoft-a company name synonymous to "security-breaches"