[ Thanks to Thomas
Scorpa and Greg
Stevens for these links. ]
digitalMass: Microsoft’s New Software Policy Leaves Many
Customers Fuming
“Microsoft Corp.’s new program for selling its software to
businesses may mean bigger profits for the world’s largest software
company. But according to a Boston research firm, the new Microsoft
policy has infuriated many customers, and some could respond by
switching to Apple Computer Inc.’s Macintosh or the free Linux
operating system.“‘The fact that folks are even willing to entertain the thought
is something I haven’t seen before,’ said Laura DiDio, senior
analyst at the Yankee Group, a technology research firm. ‘I have
been covering Microsoft for 14 or 15 years, and I’ve never seen
this level of anger, of outrage, of dissatisfaction…'”
NewsFactor: Windows Dissatisfaction Bolsters Mac, Linux
“Apple’s Mac OS X is at its highest popularity peak to date,
while the adoption of Linux has gained impressive momentum as both
go up against the most widely used operating system in the world,
Microsoft, a research firm said Tuesday…“The study also noted an increase in the adoption of Linux as
the ‘un-Windows’ solution, particularly as companies become
increasingly dissatisfied with Microsoft’s complex and expensive
licensing structure…”