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Story: Microsoft must say bye bye to American pie

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I must say this is pretty unbelievabe. Someone is afraid that a foreign preference for non-Microsoft software has to with anti-Americanism. Next thing they: asking an American (though a Microsoft competitor) whether this is true.

The most common reasons for anyone (not just non-US buyers) deciding not to use Microsoft products (either OS or application software) are the folowing:

- prohibitive pricing by Microsoft (an 85% profit margin on a product that already payed itself a 100 times over, if not even more)
- technical inferiority (including opennes to viruses, spyware, spamming and such) of Microsoft products
- predatory and by times even criminal behavior by Microsoft in trying to maintain and enhance their current monopolies, an trying to establish new monoplies.

What the h*ll has Iraq got to do with that. I LIKE America (though not it's current president) and my economic decisions are self-explanatory. Hey, I buy Apple, don't I?

The example in the article (India-Kashmir) is in the same category as the protests when Microsoft gave an image in their Office stock image library portraying a young black kid playing "monkey" (the kid was playing on a monkey bar). India bought 200.000 copies of the next version of the application where the Kashmir image was changed.

Summarizing: the decision not to buy Microsoft stuff has nothing to do with anti-Americanism

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