Steve Ballmer on MS Server, Linux, Yahoo & mor

yorugua writes: Furniture trembled as Steve Ballmer was to be interviewd by InformationWeek http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206900810&pgno=1&queryText=. Then he went to talk about Linux : 'How does Microsoft beat Linux? The same way "you beat any other competitor: You offer good value, which in this case means good total cost of ownership," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says.', Embrace-Extend-Extinguish: 'We say when we embrace standards, we'll be transparent about how we're embracing standards. ... If we have deviations, we'll be transparent about the deviations. Does Steve has a chance of moving Linux out of its today "confortable chair", such as in scientific workloads? What do you think?