there were three items in the news which went against microsoft. first, it had to pull back an XP security fix. second, it did something very, very rare. tt cut the price of office XP by $80 to $110. usually they don't prices even when their products get very old. third, the city of munich decided to switch 14,000 machines to linux. m$ made some pretty desperate attempts to keep its business: it sent steve ballmer and discounted to a point where its bid was 3 million euros less than linux. all that failed to impress the city.
in other news, at least four major PC manufacturers have started bundling corel's wordperfect suite instead of ms office. finally, as per SEC filings, steve ballmer sold over $1.2 billion (that's about 6000 crore rupees!) worth of his microsoft shares between may 21 and 23, ostensibly to "diversify". is his faith in m$ waning? -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
