nicedude

The Market Sees Microsoft Losing Its Grip

PS and Steven Balmer needs to lay off the ritalin or whatever he is taking as he looks all coked up and rants like a lunatic. Really not the kind of CEO behavior I would want to see in a company I had stock in. Remember Howard Dean's career ending Beyaa!! well Balmer makes that look both reasonable and tame.

The Market Sees Microsoft Losing Its Grip

For around $35.00-$40.00 a person can purchase Linux software such as Ubuntu, or Fedora 8, then a firewall for your computer and a firewall for the network.

Uhhh - While Fedora might cost money Ubuntu costs $0 dollars, Always has and always will. Also most linux distributions use IPtables which is a built in firewall, now while that is command line based there are several GUI frontends for it so you can control the firewall more easily. Why anyone would buy Vista for up to $300 when in Ubuntu for $0 you can have the same functionality and more. Then throw in that all the same stuff is available Firefox web browser, Flash player ( for you tube etc ), Open Office ( the free MS office clone ), Gimp ( a free photoshop type graphics design application ), PDF viewer support ( for electronic books ), VLC Player ( DVD & AVI MPEG and many more video formats playback ), Skype (VOIP) & Several instant messengers compatible with yahoo, msn etc.

So why on earth would someone need to pay MS a ton of money for their products especially knowing that they could care less about their customers and worship only the almighty dollar.

to just get Vista Ultimate and MS Office for a business would be close to $1000 when they could get the same functionality in Ubuntu for $0.

To anyone that wants to try Ubuntu PM me "nicedude" in the Ubuntu forums ( you need to sign up but it is 100% free ) and I will try my best to help & advise you about how you can accomplish this for $0 dollars as well.