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Re: More MS skullduggery....

  • Subject: Re: More MS skullduggery....
  • From: flyer <flyer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:00:39 -0700
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: The Los Angeles Free-Net
  • References: <55tc8gF26ev99U1@mid.individual.net> <1173984722.577840.213830@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <1241904.ioVzJAJ8Wh@schestowitz.com>
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In article <1241904.ioVzJAJ8Wh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 
newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> __/ [ peterwn ] on Thursday 15 March 2007 18:52 \__
> 
> > It seems various Government agencies are starting to recognise
> > potential problems and have imposed moratoriums on Vista and Office
> > 2007.
> 
> Office 2007 may be Microsoft's Titanic: former Government IT boss
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Bill Gates has been talking up Office 2007 ahead of its business launch
> | on November 30. However, the recently departed deputy CIO of one of
> | Australia's biggest government Microsoft sites believes introducing
> | the new version of Microsoft Office may be the company's biggest
> | ever disaster.
> `----
> 
> http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7234/53/
> 
> But hey? Who's that guy talking? Maybe he's just some Apple zealot.
> 
> NIST, DOT and FAA are also a minority and they are technically inapt, so they
> can't see the benefits of Office.
> 
> Sarcasm aside, in addition to what Gordon has mentioned, consider this:
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | It details how Microsoft has built into Vista the "trusted
> | computing" ability to lock down Office files via DRM such that
> | no unauthorized document reader will be able to decrypt and
> | read them. This is perhaps one of the biggest hidden weapons
> | Microsoft has in its arsenal that could sabotage Linux and
> | OpenOffice.org if Microsoft succeeds in its attempt to plug
> | SUSE and all Novell's "interoperability" bonuses.
> `----
> 
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000142

I think there are WAAAAAAAY to many seeing straight through the MS con 
game at this point. Your continuing and growing list of Linux adoptions 
is almost unbelievable. While back, who ever would have thought it could 
happen?

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