Is Microsoft a thing of the past?
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| Is Microsoft a thing of the past? What with the developments in
| systems like Linux, some people think so. Even Mark Shuttleworth
| is promoting a new system -- which is simple, user-friendly, and
| a whole stack cheaper than Microsoft.
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| Bruce Whitfield:
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| Let's chat to Jane in Fourways because Jane, I was asking earlier
| whether or not there is a future for Microsoft as an operating
| system. You seem to suggest that Microsoft maybe a thing of the past.
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| Jane:
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| Hi Bruce, absolutely, especially in a country like South Africa where a
| basic Windows operating system costs I think it is over a R1000 where
| something like Linux, which is open source, and it is free and it is
| something Mark Shuttleworth is promoting in the rural areas. That has to be
| the way to go.
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