On Fri, 09 May 2008 20:53:39 -0600, High Plains Thumper wrote:
> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> $50 more for Linux Eee PC 900 – what gives Asus?
<snip trollshit>
Windows is screwed, by M$ themselves. Get used to it.
2006:-
Windows Vista: Work In Progress
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/windows_vista_work_in_progress.html
2008:-
- Microsoft CEO says Vista "work in progress" -
http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/14077/15101/ballmer-talks-vista-jokes-yahoo.phtml
"Work in progress", does that mean Fista hasn't even reached 'beta' stage?
Good grief, it's 2 years between those two articles & Fista is *still*
W.I.P!
> Deploying KDE to 52 million young people
>
> http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/04/deploying-kde-to-52-million-young.html
>
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> > By the end of this year 29,000 labs serving some 32,000,000 students
> > will be fully deployed and in active use.
> >
> > By the end of next year (2009) those numbers will have swelled to
> > 53,000 labs serving some 52,000,000 students.
> `----
>
> http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9909499-7.html
>
> [quote]
> April 2, 2008 2:08 PM PDT
> EU investigation into Open XML vote still ongoing Posted by Martin
> LaMonica Post a comment
>
> European antitrust regulators are investigating whether Microsoft abused
> its desktop software market dominance in its effort to standardize the
> Office Open XML file formats.
>
> The European Commission's antitrust regulatory body sent queries to
> several European countries to see how the standards-setting process was
> working, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday.
>
> The investigation is still ongoing, he added.
>
> The effort stems from a complaint lodged by anti-Microsoft lobbying group
> ECIS (European Commission for Interoperable Systems). The Commission said
> in January that it is exploring whether the Open XML file formats are
> sufficiently interoperable with competitors' products.
> [/quote]
>
> http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7386/469
>
> > EU: Schools increase use of Open Source Open Source News - 26 February
> > 2008 - EU and Europe-wide - General
> >
> > [....]
> >
> > In Macedonia, a 180.000 PCs running the GNU/Linux distribution Ubuntu
> > are being deployed in schools across the country. In Turkey all
> > students aged 11 and 12 will find Open Source on their schools PCs as
> > an option next to Microsoft Windows. And in Russia, the government last
> > year decided to migrate all schools to GNU/Linux, a move that should be
> > completed by 2009.
>
> He who laughs last, laughs best. Yup, Linux is here to stay.
Yup, it surely is. :-)
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