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I have met so many people who work for M$ who praise Apple for their products and vision, and knowing what the marketplace wants and needs.
Of course, they won't usually say that INSIDE one of the M$ offfice buildings.....I usually have those discussions outside in the parking lot, or off campus.
They have to sign agreements to never defame, disparage or criticize M$ in public, or risk being disciplined, or fired. Same with MCSE certified techs.
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MS makes HUGE, obscene amounts of money for support folk.
At a former employer we went from 1200 Macs with one tech support guy (me), to no Macs, 900 Windows machines, and 12 support folk. Oh, IT said it would be cheaper to go with Windows, they were wrong. The first year we spent over $100,000 just recovering data from failed laptop HD's, that alone was twice as much money as my whole Mac support budget.
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BGnR just stated the top of the iceberg. That is the key to the whole Windows platform. It's a revenue generating train that never ends. Get a client locked into Windows and a company has a continual flow of blood, I mean cash, to leech.
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[quote M A V I C]BGnR just stated the top of the iceberg. That is the key to the whole Windows platform. It's a revenue generating train that never ends. Get a client locked into Windows and a company has a continual flow of blood, I mean cash, to leech.
Who do you think started the HUGE media engine ZDNet?
MS Millionaire Paul Allen, who left MS with a huge trunk of money to print the magazines featuring Windows, which sold Windows, then started printing the magazine that helped fix Windows!
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