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Here's the pitch for what could be your next PC: No Microsoft, no Intel -- and almost no markup.

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Have been playing with Mandrake Linux 9 and I've gotta say that Linux is definitely "getting closer"

And if someone is just doing light word processing and a bit of web surfing, with the KDE or Gnome graphical user interface Linux is just as easy to use right now as Windows...so why pay the Micro$oft tax.

Although to a large extent Wally World got rich by using cheap non-union labour and predatory pricing...its not the only reason...they see the writing is on the wall for Micro$oft.

The writing is on the wall for Micro$oft all over Asia, Latin America and increasingly in Europe.

By the way, have a look at this siteRed Flag Linux

This is the distribution of Linux developed by the Chinese government (free to download of course!) in both desktop and server versions. I understand Red Flag Linux is based on the popular Red Hat Linux distribution.

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The writing is on the wall for Micro$oft all over Asia, Latin America and increasingly in Europe.

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I assume it is easy to add a modem and other components via USB ports?

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So Bill was right when he testified that not only was MS not a monopoly, but that his company was so precariously postioned in a hyper-competitive arena that it could be outa biz in 10 years?

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Micro$oft very defintely is a monopoly, certainly in the desktop marketplace, just that the days of
M$ controlling 90% of the market are numbered.

M$ certainly isn't going to go out of business any time soon. They're very cash rich while all of their competitors are spilling red ink.

The one thing that does scare the hell out of them is "open source" software...its something they can't compete with. So they spend a whole lot of time, money and energy these days knocking open source as being "creeping communism" in the software industry.