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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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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
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>> 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/
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>>
>> Recent:
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>>
>> 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
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>> 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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> How long will it be until the first security flaw is discovered?
> One month?
> One quarter?
Many were found already.
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