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Will CS Students Switch From Microsoft?
spotter writes: "There's an article in Newsweek International that talks about how Microsoft's tactics are turning off an entire generation of CS students from their products and increasing the fortunes of Linux." The article isn't deep or flawless, but hits on a major point: what students learn in school is key to what they go on to do.
I had the same thing happen to me. My Athlon 800 chip and Abit K7A mobo died. When I replaced them I had to re-register WinXP with Microsoft via phone.
I provided some details about my re-registration, promised that what I was saying was true, and got a new registration number. It was fairly straightforward. As long as you're legit you should be OK.
That being said it was pretty humiliating having my veracity challenged by some phone-monkey and the experience has influenced me against M$.
anyway.....
J
Oh well, no point in steering now.
> Maybe by next year they'll report on the 2000 USA elections. What? they're over? So soon?
You got that right. Anyone reading the article would think that KDE isn't available yet--the authors evidently think that the upcoming version of KDE is the very first version, judging by the way they wrote it up.