Microshaft monopoloy is costing $10bn burden to industry 9912
MAKE THOUSANDS!!! I found this on a bulletin board and decided to try it: I don't...
Snit True. The clbuttic model for business software is to spend a bundle on the initial purchase with the carrot that you get a years' free tech support. I would bloody...
A word to the wise, lucky, is that such tripe will only server to infuriate the IT professionals who inhabit COLA and send them into the waiting arms of Mr. Softee who offers no such disrespect!
The author tries pitifully to make the case:
"Reason #1: The vendors may claim that by not shipping these products with an operating system, it will make it very difficult to offer users support."
"Cybersource's response: Almost all of these vendors ship computer server hardware with no preinstalled operating system at all, yet they have no problems offering support to users for those lines of products."
Outside the blatant lie that "all of these vendors ship computer server hardware with no preinstalled operating system at all", it is extremely demeaning to the IT professionals to claim that their abilities are the same as those of the general public when it comes to installing operating system software on a blank machine.
Curiously, as well, the paper never said anything about $10B in lost opportunities for MS compebreastors, lucky. Wherever did you get that notion? The paper's premise was that, given the nonsensical interpretation of figures and absurd postulates regarding OEM profits and other convenient buttumptions, it only said that Aussie consumers were overpaying some $200M per annum for their Wintel machines.
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