The reason why we chose Beijing for the lab is that China has achieved remarkable progress in the research and development of Linux OS.

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We've reached the tipping point with the LSB. If you're an application developer targeting the Linux opportunity, your job just got a lot easier.

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Microsoft can compete against any single Linux vendor, but they can't compete a global Linux ecosystem with universal interoperability.

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As the standards are provided and then adopted, the Linux desktop will snowball. Microsoft can compete with a Sun, a Red Hat or a Novell, but they won't be able to compete with an ecosystem of Linux desktops.

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This certification lab will increase the number of Linux applications and ensure that Linux does not fragment.

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What our standards will do is enable desktop application vendors to easily target the Linux ecosystem, not just a single vendor, to make sure they run across all the different distributions.

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