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U.S. Asked to Put Purchasing Power to Good Use
James Love writes "Today Ralph Nader and I wrote U.S. Office of Management and Budget Director Mitch
Daniels to ask the federal government to use its power as a big consumer to
address competition issues in the market for PC client software. These are
some of the practices we want OMB to examine: OMB is asked to provide information on federal expenditures for Microsoft products, determine if a software "monoculture"
makes the federal government more vulnerable to computer viruses or unauthorized access to federal computers, and to consider a number of strategies to use the US government's purchasing power to promote competition and make Microsoft behave; OMB is asked to consider if Microsoft should be required (as a matter of procurement policy) to fully disclose the file formats of its office productivity and multimedia programs, so that the data created in such programs could be reliably read by non-Microsoft software; OMB is asked to consider if it should place a cap of the market share for any one vendor of PC client software, and have the size of the cap depend upon Microsoft's willingness to open up its interface information, or port its MS Office products to additional platforms; OMB is also asked to consider if it would be more efficient to buy code for office productivity products (and release into the public domain), rather than spend billions to lease software."
eTesting Labs Inc has found Windows XP to be overall the fastest version of the Windows operating system ever created for a wide range of desktop computing tasks.
On average, Windows XP-based computers:
Score 36% higher than Linux Redhat on Business Winstone 2001. Score 77% higher than Linux Mandrake on Content Creation Winstone 2001. Perform equivalent to the record-setting speed of Windows 2000 Professional, even with the addition of extensive new productivity features.
Windows XP is clearly superior to all versions of Linux in all key performance categories. Among the lab's findings:
Faster startup performance: Windows XP is on average 34% faster than Linux Mandrake and 27% faster than Redhat.
Better run-time performance: This measurement refers to the speed at which Windows XP performs tasks while your computer is running. Improvements in Windows XP runtime performance are evident in application startup and time and resource management. For example, average application startup on Windows XP is 25% faster than Linux SuSE and equivalent to Caldera.
Memory and Performance: In systems which include the recommended memory requirement of 128 megabytes of RAM, Windows XP is consistently superior to all versions of Linux.
Windows XP offers dramatically faster startup and resume times, highly responsive applications, and other new features such as Fast User Switching and an enhanced user interface.
In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women!-H.Simpson
on top of that, why should M$ make it's patented technologie savailible to the public? The company is entitled to make money for thier trouble, and if all thier code was made availible it would change their entire business strategy. The Justice dept. knows this, and will most likely side with M$ on this particular issue.
Linux is dead.
LU
Why didn't you ask the PREVIOUS administration to do this? You know, the administration with hapless candidate, Al Gore, of Washington, D.C.? You know, the one that Mr. Nader helped defeat in the last election?
That also would have been the bunch to ask to have the entire GSA fleet converted to electric go-carts, since Al wants us to give up SUV's and all, just like you Ralphie.
Oh, Ralphie, by the time you get to speak to Santa don't ask for a BB gun, you will shoot your eye out.
==> "Sexually frustrated dolphin sparks alert in UK"
You perv.
Look at how fast the msft shill got first post. They sure are paying attention aren't they???
Hi Mom!
As a conscientious AC, I must second this fine fellow's post!
You logged in trolls may get the FP, but you're just in it for the glory.
The annonymous trolls are the ones who actually are doing this for the love of the sport.
So, you can have your login names and your karma to inflate your egos, AC's are trolling for the good of the community!
I proudly say, "I'm AC, and I am legion!"
That's a neat sig. Simultaneously amusing, self serving, and sneaky. I like.
"I will trust Google to 'do no evil' until the founders no longer run it." Hello Alphabet.
What does Ralph Jew-Hater Nader have to say about this???
one what?
You hit the nail on the head.
And yet, Slashdot's mods already knocked this down to a flamebait. God help if anyone exposes the truth about leftist icons like Nader, but ad hominem attack against Bush will easily garner a troll a +5 Funny. No wonder people flee to K5 in droves.
Pot is ilegal too! Who cares? bling bling!
-- OMFG = Oh My Floatse Goatse
I take issue with your assertion that you've been using NT 3.5 since 1993. IIRC, it didn't release until late 1994. But I'll forgive you such a minor point.
Whatever happened to Windows 2000, arguably the best OS Microsoft has yet to release (just my humble opinion). I can assure you that Office 97, Fp 2K and just about every other Microsoft product works just fine on 2K.
And let's just face it, any user who cannot properly navigate Network Neighborhood needs to go back to using their calculators, and stop wasting our time.
-Chris
I couldn't get Win 2K running on my home machine without it crashing once per hour.
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