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by Anonymous User on Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 03:19:41 PM PDT

Now seems the perfect time to try an alternate OS. Since support cost is usually the trump card played by Microsoft, this seems the perfect time to move to Linux + OpenOffice: 1) Runs well on current hardware where Vista requires an upgrade 2) License is free and free to transfer where Vista + Office 2007 costs money to upgrade to and money to move the Vista license (possibly the Office license, depending on how far Microsoft wants to take this) more than once. Also, you won't need to deal with CALs or Office licenses anymore. 3) The difference in cost of training users on either system would be negligible 4) Don't have to pay the Microsoft "upgrade" treadmill every 2 years for office and 4-5 years for operating systems for little to no actual business benefit in truly useful, additional features 5) In the short term, at least, the Linux solution will be more secure

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