[TWohlford]

I don't believe a word of M$'s press releases. Dollars to donuts there will continue to be UNIX, Linux, Netware, etc in that system.

And there's absolutely nothing in there about what will happen the day after tomorrow.

Worse yet, M$ sold the software at 45% of the "market price" which, in India, is doubtless lower than in North America.

This might go a ways to compensate for the loss of nearby (to Redmond) Seattle, who continues to chose Novell's software for servers and email.

[highimpact]

Microsoft products are garbage. Their applications process millions of lines of useless code for functions that nobody uses. It's overpriced and incredibly cumbersome (i.e. slow.) MS hasn't put out a stable and fast OS since DOS. I haven't had a computer crash since I went to open source. In the world of computing, MS is a lumbering dinosaur.

[KwasiOwusu]

"I don't believe a word of M$'s press releases"

You don't? Oh no!

In case you are blind as well as psychotic, read this from the AP release again, will you?

""We will initially put 24 citizen services online and more later," said Rajiv Chawla, secretary of Karnataka's electronic governance department."

That is from the Karnataka State's electronic governance department.
Now then, is that a bit better , boy?

[KwasiOwusu]

"This might go a ways to compensate for the loss of nearby (to Redmond) Seattle, who continues to chose Novell's software for servers and email."

Ummm..what is the population of the entire Washington State again? Answer : 6 million.
Now we are talking about Seattle here, just one town in Washington state, right?

Compare that to this contract Micrsooft just won in India..its for a massive.. count it.. 55 million people..

Kinda makes your lil Seattle contract look like well peanuts doesn't it? :)