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 Microsoft Wants a Billion New CustomersPosted on Apr 19, 2007
Microsoft has given itself less than eight years to find another billion PC users. To help meet that goal, the company has pledged to sell $3 bundles of Windows XP and Office software to governments that provide schools with free computers. That’s about 2 percent of the cost of Office alone.
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By nonsequitor, April 19, 2007 at 10:46 pm #
my experience with m$ was the reason i switched to linux.
The Ubunto group is already distributing linux os in africa - for free.
http://www.ubuntu.com/products/WhatIsUbuntu
McWindows, McGates, McBalmer all dangerous to one’s mental health and financial health.
-there’s a sucker born every minute.
Report thisBy Mr Pelicano, April 19, 2007 at 6:45 pm #
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Let me see if I’ve got this straight. Bill Gates wants people to spend $3 to buy a stripped-down version of a soon-to-be-obsoleted operating system when these same people can spend $0 to install any number of Linux packages that are fully-functional, regularly updated by skilled developers, and can run a veritable plethora of free or low-cost software.
Not to mention the savings these same people will enjoy by not having to pony up for expensive anti-virus software and high-end hardware to run the memory-greedy XP.
Report thisBy Robert Hutwohl, April 19, 2007 at 6:09 pm #
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Slimy.
Report thisSounds like they are getting desperate, with Apple’s Mac OS X continuing to gain market share, hot on Microsoft’s heels.
By QuyTran, April 19, 2007 at 2:17 pm #
Microsoft gives $3 here but will get 300 Billions over there ! How could we trust a such kind of upstarts ?
Report thisBy Stephen Smoliar, April 19, 2007 at 2:16 pm #
No one has yet mentioned Microsoft’s announcement to stop supporting XP in 2008. This is worse than bait-and-switch! This time the switch will take place after the sucker is hooked (and don’t expect it to cost on $3)!
Report thisBy nonsequitor, April 19, 2007 at 9:01 am #
3$ ?
Report thisstill to expensive.
By GW=MCHammered, April 19, 2007 at 8:50 am #
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Wasn’t Billy Gates on Capitol Hill recently persuading lawmakers to ordain unlimited H-1B visas so he could replace his pricey MS workforce with twopenny foreign workers? Seems we Yanks and Euros are just expected to render world prosperity via exported j-o-b-s and, masked by extensive c-r-e-d-i-t, overpriced goods.
Besides, $3 is too much when you can download Vista Ultimate, XP Professional and Office Professional (with crack) for free or register them on foreign computers. Can’t you buy these for $1 on the streets of China?
Report thisBy James Yell, April 19, 2007 at 7:59 am #
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This is my experience with up grades from Microsoft. XP was supposed to support previous software and hardware. In fact it destroys the software to properly run hardware and refuses to run many software programs. This was deliberate to force people to buy new software, even though the old worked well. I wouldn’t buy Vista and wouldn’t run it if they gave it to me.
Let Bill Gates spend some of his billions to fix the disaster of his design. Every day I have to pay a ransom to run my internet connection and fend off the weakness designed into the system. What motive have they to clean it up when they make billions, but not fixing the problems?
Report thisBy Douglas Chalmers, April 19, 2007 at 7:32 am #
Some of these people only earn a dollar a day - even if they have any paid work. MS used to GIVE old Windows 98 software away to not-for-profit organisations - what’s the matter with them now???
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