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If it's not too much trouble

How about one of you MS shills post a link to actually back-up your claims. I've issued this challenge to the microserfs on many occasions. Nobody seems to be able to back-up their claims.

I know where I work some of the MS machines have three licenses, actually, most of them, along with the Unix, Linux, VMS and Solaris boxes. The result of some id10t management type not reading the fine print for l6. How many other businesses found themselves in the same trap? So, how many of those licenses are still sitting on shelves? How many have been replaced with something else? How many simply are not being used anymore?

I recently read an article from a financial analyst that shows, through creative book-cooking, MS keeps the appearance of making money but, acutally, is losing. Didn't 60% of the l6 customers decide not to renew?

Didn't China recently ink a deal with Sun that could turn into as many as 500 million Linux desktops? Think that will make a dent in MS dominance? Over the last two years haven't about a dozen countries decided to move away from MS as much as possible?

MS shills seem to stay in a state of denial. MS does not. The real irony of it all is every effort MS has made at stopping Linux backfired on them. If they (MS) put half the effort into developing a secure system as they do in badmouthing Linux they could possibly have a decent system.

It seems that MS shills really have a difficult time accepting the fact people use Linux because they prefer it. I suppose it's easier to rationalize it's some kind of unnatural hatred of MS that to accept the truth. Ignore the facts if that is what it takes to keep your sanity. You forget, or never knew, MS didn't get where they are overnight. it took them decades. They seem to have peaked out. The only way they can make money is to turn their sights back on their customers and find new, 'innovative' ways to extort more money from them. We are getting wiser. There has been no significant improvement in MS offerings for almost a decade, just new teletubbies-like GUIs with menus rearranged. It's still easier to crack than an egg.

Oh, MS press releases don't count. Give some real proof.

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