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Any Reason To Buy Microsoft?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pretty-certificates-and-nifty-joysticks dept.

zymano writes "This yahoo article says that almost everything enterprises once found unique to Microsoft they can now find somewhere else -- without some of the baggage that comes with Microsoft purchases, like ongoing security concerns and mystifying licensing practices and that in a recent survey of CIOs, Forrester Research found that about 25 percent of them were already in the process of replacing Windows servers with Linux."

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  1. other people need to buy microsoft by Brian+Boitano · · Score: 5, Funny

    to give us someone to look down on

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  2. Yep buy Microsoft! by bazik · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, buy their products to support them. Where else can you get such decent mice?

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  3. Obligatory Bad Joke by AtomicX · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bill: Our market share is falling, what can we do? Ballmer: [Sweating]Improve our products?[Still Sweating] Bill: Don't be ridiculous, if Windows was secure then we wouldn't be able to charge for bug fixes, [not that our software is buggy of course] Ballmer: [Shirt now navy blue]We could take the old standby[Shirt now very dark navy blue] Bill: Aha - [to voice activated Windows box]Bring in the lawyers![Windows BSODs] [To voice activated Linux box] Bring in the lawyers! [Lawyers arrive] Bill: I want Linux to be made illegal Ballmer: [Shirt now dissolving in acidic sweat] Developers! Developers! Developers! Bill: Not now Steve! Lawyers: This will cost you Bill, bribery is very expensive these days. Bill: Nah! - I ran an audit check on the US govt. they haven't complied with the MS Windows Server 2003 EULA clause 0203432448 (You hereby agree that All your base are belong to MS) Lawyers: It shall be done oh fabulously wealthy one! [US Govt. declares Finland a terrorist state, wages violent war, Linus Torvolds writes a quick kernel update then goes into hiding] ... to be continued.

    1. Re:Obligatory Bad Joke by AtomicX · · Score: 5, Funny

      ^^ forgot to format it - double posting is a /. tradition anyway.

      Bill: Our market share is falling, what can we do?

      Ballmer: [Sweating]Improve our products?[Still Sweating]

      Bill: Don't be ridiculous, if Windows was secure then we wouldn't be able to charge for bug fixes, [not that our software is buggy of course]

      Ballmer: [Shirt now navy blue]We could take the old standby[Shirt now very dark navy blue]

      Bill: Aha - [to voice activated Windows box]Bring in the lawyers![Windows BSODs] [To voice activated Linux box] Bring in the lawyers!

      [Lawyers arrive]

      Bill: I want Linux to be made illegal

      Ballmer: [Shirt now dissolving in acidic sweat] Developers! Developers! Developers!

      Bill: Not now Steve!

      Lawyers: This will cost you Bill, bribery is very expensive these days.

      Bill: Nah! - I ran an audit check on the US govt. they haven't complied with the MS Windows Server 2003 EULA clause 0203432448 (You hereby agree that All your base are belong to MS)

      Lawyers: It shall be done oh fabulously wealthy one!

      [US Govt. declares Finland a terrorist state, wages violent war, Linus Torvolds writes a quick kernel update then goes into hiding] ... to be continued.

  4. I can think of one reason... by marsonist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clippit, the cute and loveable Office assistant. Let's see Linux' answer to that.

  5. Re:All in One. by KingRamsis · · Score: 5, Funny

    supported flawlessly by Microsoft software.

    And now I wonder if I get modded down for this as Troll or up as Funny :P

    how about getting modded imaginary:-2 .