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Man did you even read my posting? I did NOT write Microsoft really forces us to sell our computers with their Windows. As you say we are selling some without too. They just do not tolerate if we advertise another option, because this would mean we'd advertise Windows as the most expensive option to chose (you know like "computer 500$", "computer + linux 515$" and "computer + windows 600$"). Of course most of our customers would still buy Windows,

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fact is you're using their software. why? Because i have no choice. I am not my company's admin so i have to work with the stuff the admin hands out to me. Fact is rather: i do not own any license of any Microsoft-product and i do not use no such software at home. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%"

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People say that MS will maintain a 'strangle' hold on the industry because of its practices of 'keeping down the competition'.. i've never understood this. They don't do anything other buisnesses in every sector don't do and i have never thought of them as big brother. Bro, you're blinding yourself! M

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Microsoft is trying to inhibit the technological progress. In the end this is why they will fall. The future of computing is sharing cpu-time (and diskspace) over the ethernet. This will need superior knowledge in networking as well as in clustering. Microsoft has neither of it. And they will not be able to close the gap. Instead they will try to tell you how dangerous or whatever it is.

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Oh well this is funny. Actually Microsoft has a lot of competitors, that have much more delight solutions in their portfolio. But the truth is: it's about suppressing competition. This is the only thing Microsoft is _really_ good in. There's the speaking "The higher they climb, the harder they fall." Some day in the future people will remember Microsoft, but they wont be able to tell you anything initiated by Microsoft. They'll only kn