Nigerian Government Nixes Microsoft's Mandriva Block

An anonymous reader writes "After trying to bribe a local supplier with a $400,000 marketing contract, Microsoft has still apparently lost out in trying to woo Nigeria's government to use Windows over Linux. Microsoft threw the money at the supplier after it chose Mandriva Linux for 17,000 laptops for school children across Nigeria. The supplier took the bait and agreed to wipe Mandriva off the machines, but now Nigeria's government has stepped in to stop the dirty deal."

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Re:Personally...

[geekboy642]

I want to mod you troll, but you're exactly right. So I'll reply to you instead and remove the temptation.

XP is genuinely a fairly competent system. If you like closed source. And six-year-old privilege-escalation vulnerabilities. And Defective Restriction Management. And a vendor that tries to destroy every free alternative to their product with BS patent/copyright lawsuits. And supporting a convicted monopolist. And...

Also, how on earth do you have such high uptime if every monthly patch requires a reboot? You're not...unpatched, are you?