Windows / Linux (was Re: Filepro-list Digest, Vol 42, Issue 41)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 02:15:13PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> And some more FYI:
> 
>     http://community.livejournal.com/techsupport/1445093.html
> 
>     Arrogance of Vista
> 
>     Upgrading to Windows Vista has been banned by the U.S. Department
>     of Transportation (DOT), the National Institute of Standards and
>     Technology (NIST), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA),
>     technology giant Texas Instruments and other corporations and
>     government agencies (V1, V10, V11). These organizations are
>     evaluating their options, but overseas it's turning into a
>     stampede to get out of Microsoft software (V15).
> 
> (References at bottom of "article 1".  Unfortunately, they aren't
> active links, just the names of articles.)

Now, in fairness to Microsoft... no, wait.  Why would I want to be
fair to Microsoft?  :-)

(Those agencies and companies banned XP deployment when it first
shipped as well; they were all at least a year late getting in.  If
someone says "we evaluated it for deployment, and it failed"; *that*
would be newsworthy.  TTBOMK, it hasn't happened yet.)

Cheers,
-- jra
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