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I'm starting to feel the same way. Now excuse me while I shutdown XP and reboot into Mandriva LE 2005.
... I hate this "Software Assurance" idea and if my choices were SA or Linux, I'd probably choose Linux. I think this is a bad idea of Microsoft's part. This is going to hurt them, especially in samaller companies who won't like the idea of being locked in.
What I fail to understand is Microsoft's combating of an open system by becoming more closed and controlling.
You don't fight the other guy using a strategy that plays to his greatest strength and exposes your greatest weakness.
All they have to do is deliver on the promises they've been churning out since Cairo was announced umpteen years ago.
Then again, judging from the sheer mass of features scratched from Longhorn/Vista/whateverthehelltheywannacallit, they just may be incapable of delivering those promises.
Well, if they want to hasten their decline, who am I to say nay?
OpenOffice.org works great.
..the back-end switch to open source had cost 17 percent of what a proprietary upgrade had been costed at, with the agency doubling the amount of business it processed in the same 12-month period.
Paging Doctor Gates, Doctor Didio, Doctor O'Gara... emergency...
Another foreign government switching away from software created and sold in the US. Yet, you celebrate.
"Software Assurance" ..... does this mean Microsoft bleeds you on a monthly basis?