[Forgiven_Sinner]

The more I read this, the more interesting it became.

This is a tremendous loss for M$. They will have to cave on their prices. The only question is how long will they lose sales before they do.

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[Xenalyte]

Only problem is that SimDesk bites. It's unintuitive, hard to learn, and a source of payola for the unbelievably corrupt (yet amazingly stupid) Lee P. Brown.

[hchutch]

Of course, there is a question as to whether or not the state and local governments have been good about following the terms of the EULAs. Somehow, I think that might not be the case.

[apillar]

"The people who run this city recently heard a familiar pitch from Microsoft: Sign up for a multiyear, $12 million software licensing plan or face an audit exposing the city's use of software it hadn't paid for."

Somehow I find it hard to believe these cities are actually intimidated by Microsoft. I am unware of any law that would require a municipality to submit to an audit by a private corporation and if Microsoft tried it, I'm sure they could come up with some burly police officers to "gently" escort the auditors off of city property.

[The Great RJ]

While the city may have won this battle in the long run they will lose and it has nothing to do with Microsoft monoploy conspiracies. MS Office is number 1 because it is a good (not perfect, but good) product. There are and have been other alternatives in the market, but they have not caught on because they are not as good. Not to say that might not change in the future

I've used the competitors and in general they are cheap knock offs. Evidence of this is how the graphic user interface looks (GUI) -- even the small icons and buttons in say Corel Word Perfect mimick MS Word. Its as though Ford put a Chevy body and interior on one of its products.

Houston will find they got what they paid for with this cheap knock off and will sooner or later have the cost of replacing the software on all of their computers.

[Petronski]

I'd love to read the comments of the usual suspects.

[antaresequity]

Sounds like another Anti-Microsoft choice...like Apple.

Ask the boobs in Marin what their favorite OS is and they say Apple is because its not MS...

Seems like a dumb reason to choose somthing .... because it isn't somthing else...