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Munich Delays Linux Conversion

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the slow-and-steady-wins-the-race dept.

It doesn't come easy writes "A short blurb over at The Register reports that Munich has decided to extend the pilot phase of their Linux migration project. One smart move mentioned: Many of their office workers will switch to OpenOffice on Windows first where it is comfortable, easing the transition."

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  1. waiting for the discount offers from microsoft to by TCaM · · Score: 3, Funny

    start rolling in?

  2. Somewhere in Redmond... by cpu_fusion · · Score: 4, Funny

    Somewhere in Redmond, Ballmer is abusing a chair.

    1. Re:Somewhere in Redmond... by linguae · · Score: 4, Funny

      Another scene today at Balmer's office in Redmond, Washington

      Adjunct: Good morning, Mr. Balmer

      Balmer: Good morning to you, sir. I'm smelling the nice aroma of freshly printed $100 bills coming to our empire today. Hopefully Windows Vista and MS Office 12 preorder sales are through the roof. I can hear geeks online shouting about the virtues of IE 7, Avalon, and C#. Do you have any good news to tell me today, sir?

      Adjunct: Well, I'm afraid another one of your customers made a switch. This time, it's Munich, and they're dumping MS Office.

      Balmer: WHAAAAAAT! They're switching? To what?

      Adjunct: Well....

      Balmer: Please don't tell me it's OpenOffice. Just tell me it's not OpenOffice.

      Adjunct: It is. They're switching to OpenOffice.

      Balmer then roars into a rage. Roaring and pounding his chest with his fists, he then picks up a chair and throws it at his table, splitting the chair into two.

      Balmer: "I'm going to f***ing bury Munich, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill OpenOffice."

      Balmer: "I'm going to kill every single OpenOffice developer that I find. Them dang developers. Developers. Developers, developers, developers, developers...."

      Balmer then runs around the entire Microsoft campus like an angry 800-pound gorilla and sings his "Developers" hit.

    2. Re:Somewhere in Redmond... by antdude · · Score: 3, Funny

      LOL Someone need to animated this or uhhh spoof it in real-life in video format. [grin]

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  3. It's no wonder the transition is taking time... by Rocketship+Underpant · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't imagine waiting for Gentoo to compile on 30,000 PCs. ;)

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  4. Yes, there's a delay by WhiteWolf666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    This obviously means the death of Linux.

    After all, these opensource nuts are the only ones that experience delays, and its only because of the poor caliber of opensource programmers.

    Microsoft, of course, never experiences delays. If they had gone with a Microsoft Solution 3 years (projected started in 2001), they'd be running on Longhorm, ahem, I mean, Vista, today!

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