All Businesses EVERYWHERE 1749
wrote on 28 Jun 2006 18:34:19 -0700
WinXP Upgrade: $99 WinXP Home Full Version: $199 WinVista Home Basic: $249? WinVista Home Premium: $499? WinVista Ultimate Edition: $599 or $649? WinVista Business: $799? WinVista Enterprise: $999?
Sun and said: Please don't top-post, and trim your posts. Message rearranged and trimmed for easier reading: I'd say you're totally missing the point. proc...
guesses. Google isn't saying much regarding American prices.)
No doubt quite a few people will splurge. After all, it's Microsoft Quality(tm).
On Thursday 29 June 2006 19:08, prashant stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...: Could it be that you...
Businesses seem to be taking to Linux fairly well, at least on the server side. We'll see regarding desktops, but Microsoft has had a wonderful track record of shooting itself in the foot lately.
Of course it does; everyone knows that Linux's TCO is much much higher than Microsoft Windows, as proven by Linux running on z390 hardware compared to Microsoft Windows XP Enterprise running on a 486 with 512 MB. That's why everyone knows about the Microsoft Blue Screen Of rest and rails against the stupidity of such things as requiring a reboot after an IP address change (thankfully, that was eventually addressed in Win2k but it sure took them awhile) and tabbed browsing in IE7 (finally, after *how* long?).
Hm...what was that, Lbuttie? You say Flatfish has fallen down a well? Oh gosh. Can you grab onto this rope and pull him up? Oops! Oh well, guess I'll have to go to the vet for another set of false teeth.
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-- Windows Vista. Because it's time to refresh your hardware. Trust us.