will hill wrote: >Ouch. The faster you migrate, the better off you will be. I have not used M$ >to do more than burn CDs for a year now, and I don't think I'm missing much. >
I use Xcdroast to burn CDs in Linux. > >What does M$ still provide that you actually need? Would'nt it be better to >isolate those few needs and take those computers off the network? Surely, >email and browsing are not those Microsoft needs. If you get rid of that, you >eliminate most of your virus threats. The only thing that would be left is >Word bombs comming in from the sneaker net and that will go away if you move >your text editing to Open Office or some other reasonable program. > > It is a political issue. The only things that I still use M$ for are Visio and Adobe Premier for video editing. Unfortunately, our purchase card software only runs under M$. There is no way around that - I have tried. Also, there is a partial ban on Linux for the desktop machines at work... Politics! I personally have eliminated M$ from 90% of my activities, but work si a much bigger battle. Mainly due to politics. Shannon
