SAN FRANCISCO - NOVEMBER 2: In this photo provided by Microsoft, CEO Steve Ballmer speaks during a press conference to announce a set of broad business and technical collaboration agreements with Novell for Windows and Linux interoperability and support on November 2, 2006 in San Francisco, California. The two companies have agreed to build, market and support a series of new solutions to make Novell and Microsoft products work better together and also announced an agreement to provide each other's customers with patent coverage for their respective products. Getty Images logo Getty Images 32 months ago

SAN FRANCISCO - NOVEMBER 2: In this photo provided by Microsoft, CEO Steve Ballmer speaks during a press conference to announce a set of broad business and technical collaboration agreements with Novell for Windows and Linux interoperability and support on November 2, 2006 in San Francisco, California. The two companies have agreed to build, market and support a series of new solutions to make Novell and Microsoft products work better together and also announced an agreement to provide each other's customers with patent coverage for their respective products.