[Am-info] The beginning of the end for Microsoft?

[Mark Dodel]

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39151790,00.htm

"While alternatives to the Windows operating system and Microsoft's cash
cow -- its Office productivity suite -- have long existed, these products,
including OS/2 and WordPerfect, failed to make a lasting impression on the
IT community.

Fast forward to 2004.

Today, competitors to Microsoft, such as Sun Microsystems, are slowly but
surely gaining ground at its expense and this could well mark the start of
a mass customer exodus from Microsoft -- at least for select products. It
seems the recurring complaints by Microsoft's clients over issues
pertaining to security, reliability and the hidden cost of its offerings
have fallen on the right ears."

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 From the eComStation Desktop of: Mark Dodel

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