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Story: MP attacks government over Microsoft policy

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Mac cheaper than Vista i dont think so!!!!

Pugh says why should people have to pay for vista instead opting to use Mac, If he had of said Linux i would agree but i think he should have gone to PCworld to see how much things cost.
I agree on the basis people are not given enough choice for OS somewhere like Pc world does not give the option for a Linux OS such as Ubuntu.However Microsoft is what people are trained on in education and 9 times out of ten the product that will be used in the workplace so for the forseeable future trends for OS usage are unlikely to change.
Macs are lovely machines with a solid OS but you pay for the quality of the components used, they are subjected to minimal amount of viruses and spyware, but would this be the case if used on a larger scale. In terms of the Government im sure Macs are used where needed and i doubt that they have made any proactive effort to dissadvantage apple in any way.
As for linux and open source you are effictively getting an unfinished product for you to tune up. For people in our positions this is ok and i myself can switch between OS's with no problem at all (maybe some lol) but i am certain this is not the case for the majority of the public.
Microsoft OS and Applications far outweigh what you can do with opensource software such as open office for education and the bussiness world and the old saying it takes money to make money comes to my mind.
If Mr Pugh had asked a handfull of fairly large companies he would of found that many company's will use Linux servers for data storage or to run intranets and so on.
As a result i think we have healthy competition in this sector Microsoft are the giants in the industry but it seems to work ok.

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