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To: potlatch

Thought you might like to see this...
...Food for thought... some positives, some negatives, regarding one later alternative to 'Vista' (...and why, by the time I get ready to leave XP, in 2 years or so, I think by then Linux will be a real, viable, alternative for us non-wizards.)

Larry Magid / New York Times:

The Next Leap for Linux  — LINUX runs the Google servers that manage billions of searches each day. It also runs the TiVo digital video recorder, the Motorola Razr cellphone and countless other electronic devices. — But why would anyone want to use Linux, an open-source operating system, to run a PC?
Link Search: Ask, Technorati, Sphere, Google, and IceRocket
Discussion: yelvington.com and Digg

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Drew Cullen / The Register:
Vista Business sales soar like leaping dachshund
60 posted on 10/06/2007 2:41:12 PM PDT by Seadog Bytes (OPM - The Liberal 'solution' to every societal problem. (Other People's Money))
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To: Seadog Bytes; devolve

So Vista’s not very “Buena for Microsoft”, lol.

Thanks a lot Seadog for all the links, very good of you! I am not familiar with Linux, need to read up on it.


62 posted on 10/06/2007 5:21:51 PM PDT by potlatch (MIZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MIKAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_))
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