Re: [chat] STUDENTS can have Win 7 for a reduced fee of £30, Microsoft has announced
Morgan Storey <[email protected]>
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Microsoft have always done this, I knew a bloke who worked for a non-profit organisation and MS would give them Windows server licences for next to nothing. Of course they are trying to stiffle the free competition. Being a non-profit even $70 extra per server was not do-able so most of their file servers ran linux, but they still had windows AD and exchange. Realistically though the OEM licence is not seen as a cost for some companies, so Linux can't compete there. On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Voytek Eymont <[email protected]> wrote: > Windows 7 has been introduced after Microsoft admitted its Vista > operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have > described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the > Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths. > > [ > http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/microsoft-offers-students-cut%11price-infuriating-crap-200909182075/ > ] > > -- > Voytek > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html