Both your articles are from 2009 or earlier. The gartner article put VMWare's market share at 85%. That leaves 15% for the rest. Best case, in 2009, MS had < 15%.
Is there updated data from Gartner?

The dabcc article (who are they first of all) explain their counting at the end. They count shipments for virtualization software, not usage. So, every copy of Windows Server 2008 counted as a Hyper-V purchase. Also, that article is from 2008. It gave VMWare a 78% market share. The IDC article, a year later gave VMWare an 85% market share.

From the provided articles I see a declining trend in Hyper-V usage.

Noooooo! C# is completely different from Java, it's not related at all. It's completely new, innovative, AND dandy!

for(Employee employee:employees) {
        employee.setHireDate("1 year ago");
        employee.setLanguages("C#;

Now, I know the code example is in Java, but I thought that a code example might explain what was wrong with your sentence. If it doesn't, then these are the points I'm trying to make:
1. Employees already work for said company.
2. Sentences that end before they are finished.
Oops, I did it, too.

I think your argument didn't help. You seem to be saying, like the original article, that you can't make a 1.7oz burger in ".NET", you have to extend .NET to do it.

I'm going to admit, right now, that I have know idea what .NET is, marketing has provided too many definitions. So, your argument might be spot on. I don't think so, though.

I think C# is part of .NET, but I'm not sure. Let's assume so, for now, that C# is part of .NET. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I think one can make a 1.7oz burger in C#. I think I might be able to do it. However, I might have to use Mono and MonoDevelop.

Wikipedia says ReplayTV was founded in 1997, the device was announced in January 1999 at CES and began selling in April.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReplayTV
Tivo was founded in 1997, began early trials to actual users in 1998, was also at CES in 1999 and began selling in March.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiVo

Luckily your opinion of the interface does not require facts.

Leopard was slower across the board. PowerPC users are just stuck with it.

Search for "#!/bin/bash".

I think that's what you want the article to be doing. I read this:

The good news for those concerned about privacy is that it appears for now Canonical is just interested in tracking the users of OEM installations -- those PCs that ship with Ubuntu by default such as from ZaReason, System76, and Dell.

To mean that, for now, they're only installing it on OEM computers. Also, it is a GPL'd bash script with nothing hidden. The comments at the top of the script say, "This is used for surveying how many original OEM installs are still existing on real machines." Somebody previously posted the source, search for "#!/bin/bash".

No. It's a bash script posted in a comment above. Search for "#!/bin/sh"

I think it's important to note that the Wired article didn't conclude their was a brigade, probably many individuals with individual agendas. Also, they didn't mention a side to which these buriers leaned.

Also, the Lyndon LaRouche "Plants" weren't plants at all, they wanted to be Tea Party members. Read the articles.

Wow! For me, Firefox never crashes. Even on Windows.

How many of those 1,000 employees need help from the priest and social worker because they aren't paid enough to buy food, clothing, and/or shelter?

Sorry for your troubles, I can't figure out why your sound/wireless/graphics worked so perfectly on the LiveCD (unavailable on Mac or Windows), but then didn't when you installed. Did you point out in your bug report how the LiveCD worked so well? That might have helped the bug folks track it down.

And I'm really sorry it happened to you again on the next release. Wow, intermittent freezes that didn't occur on the LiveCD either. I heard there was freezing caused by upgrading Ext3 partitions to Ext4, that you wouldn't have seen on the LiveCD. However, since Ext3 was the default and stable filesystem for LTS+2 (Jaunty), I doubt you would have done something that risky.

Again, I'm sorry for your troubles. I truly wish your experiences were as good as mine. For me, the LiveCD experience exactly predicted the final installation experience, except that the LiveCD was a bit slower.