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AMEInfo: Microsoft Hits Back at Linux in the Middle East

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“Microsoft chose the Gitex show last week in Dubai as the
occasion to launch a broad critique of the Linux operating system.
Far from being free to the user and cheap to operate, Linux can
prove an expensive mistake, says the Windows giant.

“The Linux operating system has caused great interest in the
Middle East in recent months, and IBM has won some major contracts
with this system, including a Bahrain Government deal last week.
But is Linux really the low-cost solution that it is cracked up to
be…?”

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