[tr_wright1]

most of us have used m$' windows,
and most of us have eXPerienced it's crap help right?
And as if thats not bad enough, m$ have come up with a way to make more $$$ (like they need it!)
what they have done is made all their help programs even more C***
so that people have to PAY to get help online.
here is the evidence....
http://tr_wright.tripod.com/linuxstuff/id8.html

[Blue|Fusion]

I so cannot wait for Microsoft to be exceeded by Linux in the household and industry markets, and just watch gates crumble to the ground, crying like a little baby. Though I doubt it will happen any time soon, mark my words...it will happen. I hope that the government does something about Microsoft...declare it too much of a monopoly or something. I have yet to see Linux available for even an option on Gateway, Dell, HP, etc home computer systems. It is on the servers, but they should offer it just as much on the home systems.

And microsoft support sucks anyway. Before they charged, and I had a problem, I was on phone for over 2 hours and the most intelligent response I got was "We are sorry we cannot help you, sir." They told me to send back Windows 2000 in exchange for Windows XP...and wanted me to pay the full price... After that, I bootlegged XP Pro off Kazaa, and got into Linux...best thing I have ever done.

[sarumont]

Originally Posted by Blue|Fusion

I hope that the government does something about Microsoft...declare it too much of a monopoly or something.

Wish in one hand and shite in the other...

I don't forsee this happening with Dubya in the WH. He hasn't done a damn thing about it these 4 years. Mass. made a very ballsy move when they announced and began the total switch of all gov't computers to a Linux solution.

This is the only way that Linux will take over...Small (relatively) groups taking the initiative to switch. Mass. government workers will use Linux at work...then eventually start using it at home. The same thing must happen in other companies/organizations.

My $0.02.

[u231]

all the major it companies offer it to thier consumers, thier companies that make thier buisness out of that, the wave of the futer out sourcing

[Dave The Snake]

I remember once when i was loading WIN 3.1 any way I was using the coping facility to make duplicate disks and i made an irrelevant error like hitting the wrong key and this sent a bug out to my Autoexec BAt files and corrupted it badly,it did let me make one set of disks but I got pretty Paranoid and thought this migh be a way of stopping people making duplicate install disks without the licence!!!
Hav had similarprobs with linux install but now ok

[danbo]

Originally Posted by Blue|Fusion

I hope that the government does something about Microsoft...declare it too much of a monopoly or something.

The government did declare microsoft as a monopoly and therefore they were ordered to split the company into several sub companies, and they did.

[The_Insomniac]

eh...

what are you going to do. its not there fault they are the most popular simple os around. and that other os' fail in comparison. besides linux. but the majority of the world doesnt understand this. if some no name company where to make an os and have that be the basis of their computer, they wouldnt buy it because ms has been there forever. it could be monopolizing however if the public werent so stupid in the first place to not let it happen...

summary:
the public is to blame.

[Muser]

so really the only way to get linux to pass windows is for us to bring people into the community and get them hooked. oh and IBM has to keep running those Linux ads, which are very cool.

[GrumpyGerbil]

Microsoft have not only been declaired a monopoly, but have been ordered to plit up the compnay. New york continue to sue

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/busines...9150204,00.htm

Europe is forcing M$ to think about things and more and more cities are turning to linux as there servers in schools hospitals etc etc. Microsoft is starting to crumble, and they know it.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/softwar...9150869,00.htm

They even paid some1 to investigate into which operating system was cheaper aswell.

They even know Linux is a threat
http://<br /> http://www.zdnet.com....9150512,00.htm

[scientica]

Originally Posted by The Book of Mozilla, 3:31 (Red Letter Edition)

And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble.

Originally Posted by The Book of Mozilla, 7:15

And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

4/\/\3|\|

( about:mozilla - IE has a just a blue screen, uhm, not the BSOD, crashed before text output :P )

To get back to the real world, does anyone think that at some point the process against M$ of splitting got very very silent all of a sudden - I'm not insinuatng anything political here...

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Originally Posted by http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39150869,00.htm

In one, the city is replacing 100 Windows servers spread among its schools with 20 IBM blade servers in two centrally located BladeCenter chassis

ok, a 1:5 ratio (thus, you replace 5 windows servers with 1 single linux server )
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