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Story: 2004: The year of desktop Linux?

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Does the Gartner Vice President get handouts from Micro$oft? How many typical office computer users need the advanced features of Winblows or Office? For word processing, spreadsheets and presentations there is OpenOffice or Star Office (free and ~£50 respectively), for email there is Sendmail, Squirrelmail and Evolution (free, free and ~£50) and of course there is a choice of distributions. All of which the average Office user can migrate to with little or no training costs.

The equivalent package from Microsoft will cost you at least £100, just for the OS. Then there is the weekly security breaches, patching and the Windows speciality, the Blue Screen of Death. Linux is more secure, more stable and maturing through the efforts of a devoted international community, who are mostly providing Linux for free, not charging an arm and a leg for it.

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