Microsoft/Linux milestones

20.07.2009

June -- CEO Steve Ballmer one-ups Mundie, calling Linux a "cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works."

May -- Then-Microsoft chairman Bill Gates equates the GPL to anti-capitalism at a Government Leaders' Conference in Seattle.

Microsoft begins its campaign extolling virtues of Windows over Linux. The campaign is disbanded in 2007.