Tech: Vista the best thing to happen to the PC industry.
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| Any one of a number of Linux distributions will run on your existing PCs
| without cramping overhead; OpenOffice.Org will handle all of your document
| requirements including presentations and Firefox (and several other browsers)
| handle your browsing. They work, they are free of charge and our own
| experience is that once users have spent a couple of days with them, they
| don't want to go back to Windows or MS Office. Indeed, people that leave our
| own company ask if we can burn a set of disks for them to take when they go.
| Some even bring their own PCs into the office and ask for it to be turned
| into a Linux machine.
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| Vista may well turn out to be Linux's best friend - and as that happens
| manufacturers are going to have to decide where their loyalties lie - with
| the consumer or with Microsoft.Those manufacturers have to learn one thing:
| if he who pays the piper calls the tune, consumers are at last realising that
| it is their money that keeps the PC industry going. And at last they are
| saying "hang on - do we need this?"
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http://chiefofficers.net/888333888/cms/index.php/news/thursday_tech/tech_vista_the_best_thing_to_happen_to_the_pc_industry
Microsoft counts Linux migrations as Vista sales. How convenient.
Recent:
French police deal blow to Microsoft
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| The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft
| for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest
| administrations in the world to make the break.
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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w
Related:
Holy Crap: Did Bill Gates Just Say Windows Sucks?
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| We asked a simple question: what Microsoft product could have used a little
| more polish before release? The answer astounded us. We would just like to
| thank Bill Gates for his honesty and his openness.
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http://gizmodo.com/342920/holy-crap-did-bill-gates-just-say-windows-sucks
Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista
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| Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to
| openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the
| Financial Times Deutschland on Monday.
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| Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users and
| businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to the report. Taiwan-based
| Acer is the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, after HP, Dell and
| Lenovo.
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| "The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista," Lanci said.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=9579
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