Is Microsoft/Yahoo about Windows' failure as a top server platform?

Carvalho, in a talkback on CNN/Money wrote, "I do not know if anybody …
has understood the layer beneath a Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)-Yahoo Inc.
(YHOO) deal." Caravalho continued, "Microsoft runs on the Windows
platform and it has proved inadequate to run big Internet companies.
There is not one big Internet company—and I mean "BIG" like Google Inc.
(GOOG), Yahoo, Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), eBay Inc. (EBAY) and such—that
runs on Windows besides Microsoft. Its software platform has been a
disaster supporting its search engine, email and other free services."

Therefore, if Microsoft buys Yahoo and moves it to Windows, "Microsoft
will go broke because this is just what hasn't worked well." But, if
Microsoft doesn't move Yahoo to Windows, "it will be signing the
Windows platform obituary because when people realize that Microsoft
itself can run on Linux and does not need Windows, they will follow
through." -- http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8001941484.html

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