Electing Ubuntu Linux
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| Billdom makes its citizens far too reliant on the prevailing regime, and
| discourages independence. Users are locked in to constant costly upgrades, as
| Microsoft changes its formats and retires its software.
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| We began the installation process at 4.59pm on a Friday, after spending an
| hour making sure all our backups were intact. By 5.24pm, newly partitioned
| and with its new operating system, it had become a much more powerful PC than
| it had been under Windows XP, and a good deal more stable and powerful that
| it would have been running Vista.
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http://bleedingedge.com.au/blog/archives/2007/08/electing_ubuntu_linux.html?fromrss=1
Related:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2171472,00.asp
Hasta la Vista, baby
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| It seems as if the Dutch are tired of Microsoft's finest breaking all the
| time, and they've set up a hotline for consumers complaining about Windows
| Vista.
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| [..]
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| Apparently the Consumentenbond (Office of Fair Trading) is vastly unimpressed
| by the fact that it's difficult to buy a new computer without Windows Vista,
| and that the very same operating system causes such a high number of
| problems, which the average user is not equipped to deal with.
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| If the Consumentenbond finds that too many people are having problems with
| Windows Vista, it may elect to start legal proceedings against Microsoft.
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http://www.t3.co.uk/news/247/general/hasta_la_vista,_baby
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