Posted on 02/02/2007 4:07:36 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
According to an e-mail message, dated November 1, 2002, that has been entered as evidence in the Iowa consumer antitrust case against Microsoft, some Microsoft executives favored hiding the fact that Microsoft paid International Data Corp. (IDC) for one of the total-cost-of-ownership studies comparing Windows and Linux that the firm conducted at Microsoft's request. (It looks like fear of being outed triumphed, and Microsoft ultimately decided to admit its role in commissioning the IDC TCO and subsequent anti-Linux studies.)
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I don't see how anybody could be surprised. Linux computers take less work to keep up and running. As a former admin, I can personally vouch for that. 1 admin can administer more *nix boxes. Doze as well as other M$ just requires too much patching and upkeep on a regular basis due to abnormal finickiness.
Linux take less to keep running... yeah right. ninety percent of computer users probably couldnt even install it and get the printer working. sure if u are a nerd its probably better... but not for anyone else.
DOS ain't done
'til Lotus won't run.
I say "keep running" and you say "get running"
I'm at a loss here.
ok... but still, how can you keep something running if you cant get it running in the first place? besides, i have no trouble keeping any XP computers running.
I just installed Fedora Core 6 on a laptop this afternoon. Took an hour from start to finish, 1 reboot, and I was up. No more difficult than Windows.
"keep running"
i think you missed two key words.
after being tired of ALWAYS having to fix my wifes computer i changed her over to pclinuxos and she hasn't screwed anything up in over a year.
linux has saved our marriage.(smiles)
"something running if you cant get it running"
there is NO difference in installing a modern distro then installing a fresh copy of XP.
plus with liveCDs you can try it out first and make sure everything is going to work first. try that with XP.
ROTFLMAO. Yeah, unless you wanna do something crazy like connect to a network. I spent hours - about 10 of 'em - trying to get five different Linux builds to connect to a home Wi-fi network, with no success. And I'm kind of a geek. Try to get the average user to ''compile binaries'' or whatever is needed.
Meanwhile, the XP boxes at my office require exactly zero hours of maintenance time. Every few months I run an antispyware program on them for fun, but in five years I have yet to find any problems.
I like the idea of Linux, but it's about 15 years behind Windows in terms of ease of use.
RK--take a look at Ubuntu with a KDE. It might cause you to revise your statement.
I use Novell's SUSE Linux. I am part of the ninety percent who are not computer nerds. I can easily and painlessly install printers, wireless LAN cards, video cards and any other peripheral.
Linux has come a long way in the past few years.
I gave up on Shuttleworth's intellectually insipid and anti-capitalist gruel when I graduated from college.
Yeah...I've always gotten some "pro-globalism" vibes from Shuttleworth.
Agreed. Just because you use a person's product does not necessarily mean you agree with their philosophy.
For example...I disagree with Gates' pro-UN philosophy, and I still use Windows 2000 SP4. Likewise, I don't agree with Shuttleworth's pro-globalism philosophy (and no, it has nothing to do with the allged conspiracy theories of Shuttleworth and Google collaborating on Goobuntu and/or of Google using embedded webcams and microphones to spy on its users), but I really like Ubuntu (I have 6.10). Of course, I really like Xandros, and I will probably try to get Xandros 4.1 Professional in the near future. I'm a happy owner of Xandros 3.0.3 Business Edition.
You've obviously never tried to install a newer distro.
They're all graphical during install and use. Just point and click.
Fedora, Suse, Ubuntu, and lots of others.
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