Milking the cash cow

Posted in Comment, Technology by david @ Jul 19, 2008

Little Bill’s baby continue to deliver the goods. On the bare facts it seems that somehow enough people are convinced of the merits of paying for something they could otherwise get for free (more later) to rake in almost $16 billion in sales for Micro$oft. Could people not find a better way to spend their money? What is going on here? I mean Vista sux for the average user who is pretty happy with their XP yet 190 million vista licences have walked out the door for Redmond. Everyone must be aware by now that the microsoft model is pay now and suffer pain then pay more in a few more years and suffer more pain. I mean $200 (close) for a computer operating system! You have to be kidding. Add another couple of hundred bucks for office software and you have enough money to sponsor a child for a year!

Take the $16 billion in revenue for Micro$oft and you could build something like 7 million wells in Africa! I guess you get the general drift. But wait there is more! You can still have your cake. There is a very good operating system for your computer that doesn’t cost you a penny and it comes with a free office suite. It’s safe secure and you could surely use that money for something better.

The devil you know is still the devil. Take away the d and what do have have? Definitely not Ubuntu!


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