sgtrock111

Microsoft: Whistling in the Dark

You want to see a quietly effect counterargument? Google Gendarmarie, linux, and open source. The French national police force is well on the way to completing a multi-year migration of 90,000+ desktops and laptops away from Windows and Windows based applications to Ubuntu Linux hosting open source apps instead.

Why? Two reasons: Cost. Reduce reliance upon a single vendor.

Results to date? IT budget reduced by 70% End users reporting no usability issues and greater satisfaction overall with the reliability of the new environment.


On Aug 15 01:26 AM timber wrote:

> Most will upgrade to decently spec'd $500 PCs with Windows 7 and
> be done with it. And Linux is not mature enough to deploy in a corporate
> environment with the average user.
>
> As a software company, Microsoft's incremental cost of selling 1
> more Win7 license is nil. And they will sell hundreds of millions
> to their core customers - PC manufacturers and corporate clients.