British Industry: The Price of Windows | Linux Today

British Industry: The Price of Windows

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 16, 2006

“Microsoft has a case to answer. When Quocirca sifted through
8000 IT professionals’ responses to an online questionnaire last
year, the UK consultancy discovered deep unease with Microsoft’s
Windows operating system.

“In some respondents Microsoft inspired a near-psychotic depth
of loathing. Others merely recorded strong reservations about,
respectively, the cost and performance penalties of Windows’
insecurity, its squandering of hardware power, its instability and
unreliability, and the cost of Microsoft’s licences…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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