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Linux versus Windows Pricing
London Stock Exchange gets the facts and dumps Windows for Linux
Microsoft’s marketing arm excitedly churned out a case study in 2005 when the London Stock Exchange (LSE) rolled out a C# stock exchange ticker system on Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000. Four years later the LSE has scrapped the whole system in favour of a Linux-based solution instead. Link
Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word | Microsoft – CNET News
“A judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word, one of its premier products, in its current form due to patent infringement.Judge Leonard Davis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction that “prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products [...]
Microsoft’s Empty Promise – Free Software Foundation
“Microsoft’s Empty Promise Last week, Microsoft extended the terms of their Community Promise to implementations of the ECMA 334 and 335 standards. You might think this means it’s safe to write your software in C#. However, this promise is full of loopholes, and it’s nowhere near enough to make C# safe.” via Microsoft’s Empty Promise [...]
Top 10 reasons why Steve Ballmer should be certified insane
IT Wire by Davey Winder Sunday, 21 September 2008 The Top 10 Reasons What makes this funny is that all these items are true facts! (Unless you run Windows.) My favorite is #5, buy Vista and "upgrade" to XP, get two OS’s! In other words, buy XP for the great price of $300 instead [...]
