[Leaplist] Re: Microsoft Suggest Linux Hotmail Users Use Outlook Express (long)

[Jason Boxman]

On Saturday 26 January 2008 16:16, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
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> It's a load of non-sense.  Microsoft has built their entire distribution
> control on the basis that people will upgrade everything every 2-3
> years.  That works for home consumers.  That does not work for
> corporations who need at least 3-5 years.  And it definitely does _not_
> for the traditional professions -- engineering, law, medicine -- where
> not just document retention, but document revisioning is required for 10
> or more years.

That's why I don't care for Microsoft products.  I want to own my data.  I 
don't want to be constantly looking over my shoulder.  It's not ideology, 
just pragmatism.

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