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IBM tries to woo business customers from Windows 7
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| On the eve of Microsoft's launch of Windows
| 7, the gloves are off in the fight for
| business customers. IBM today unveiled an
| all-out campaign to persuade U.S. companies,
| governments and organizations to finally
| break their Windows habit and make the
| switch to Linux.
|
| [...]
|
| IBM has been making this argument for years.
| In the spring of 2003, Microsoft CEO Steve
| Ballmer cut short a skiing trip to race to
| Germany to try prevent the city of Munich
| from excising Windows and Office from 14,000
| desktop PCs. Ballmer failed. IBM and German
| Linux distributor SuSE worked furiously
| behind the scenes to persuade Munich to make
| the switch to a Linux system.
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http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/2009/10/ibm-tries-to-woo-business-customers-from-windows-7.html
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer shills Windows 7 on U.S. national TV in
front of Apple Mac (with video)
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| MacDailyNews Take: It must suck to work for
| Microsoft where important details routinely
| go left unchecked and, no matter where in
| the world you go, you're constantly surround
| by professionals who all use Apple Macs.
| Plus, every time you try to promote your
| inferior products, Apple's keep showing up
| in your TV appearances and even in your
| sloppy company's own ads that are, of
| course, also creating on Macs.
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http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/22835/
Recent:
The 7 deadly sins of Windows 7
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| Likewise, power users soon learn that their
| ability to hack Windows 7 to make it work
| the way they want is often limited by the
| closed, black-box nature of its proprietary
| code base. These users see how easy it is to
| custom-tailor Linux and even Mac OS X, and
| they feel that twinge of jealously. They
| want what these other platforms provide, and
| soon they find themselves coveting their
| neighbor's OS.
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http://tech.yahoo.com/news/infoworld/20091019/tc_infoworld/96036
Microsoft's roadkill on the journey to Windows 7
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| Windows 7 starts out on the wrong foot
|
| Although it's too early to fully measure the
| impact Windows 7 will have on the third-
| party market, it's already off to a bad
| start with its heavy-handed dismissal of
| third-party video codecs. Third-party codecs
| cooperate with video compression standards
| that Microsoft's own video applications,
| such as Media Player, were heretofore loathe
| to support.
|
| But Windows 7 adds some new codecs to
| Microsoft's quiver, and where these collide
| with third-party products, you won't be
| surprised who comes out on top.
|
| Windows 7 preempts third-party codecs in
| Microsoft's own applications, such as Media
| Player, by using its own embedded codecs
| whenever possible. This is a major change
| from XP and Vista operation, where users
| could override Microsoft codecs globally.
| Although users can circumvent Windows 7
| codec usurpation with some effort, the
| process is not intuitive and decidedly less
| convenient than the old behavior.
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http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=73864459-1A64-6A71-CEA2AE38572874F2
Feature-By-Feature: Ubuntu 9.10 Vs. Windows 7
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| Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop
| Karmic Koala's desktop should be familiar
| to Windows users. Right-click menu
| shortcuts and personalizing the desktop
| features are similar to Windows 7. The
| desktop still isn't as "glitzy" as Windows
| 7, but users can get the eye candy of
| Windows 7 with a fast graphics card and can
| choose the "Extra" settings in Ubuntu
| 9.10's "Appearance Preferences."
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http://www.crn.com/software/220600383;jsessionid=DGQV5GNOJLAARQE1GHOSKH4ATMY32JVN
Ubuntu Karmic Koala- A perfect alternative to Windows 7
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| Before you decide to pay for a Windows 7 license, I
| would humbly urge you to first download a copy of
| Karmic Koala, give it a try for a week or two and
| then make an unbiased assessment of it yourself.
| You will see that you would not have to spend money
| whatsoever on a pile of software that crumbles at
| the least attack made on it. Do you intend using
| Windows 7? Please tell us why or why you would not
| use Ubuntu.
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http://www.ghabuntu.com/2009/10/ubuntu-karmic-koala-perfect-alternative.html
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