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To: erickerickson who wrote (20698)	2/25/2005 1:18:04 PM
From: Jurgis Bekepuris	Respond to of 78686

While I agree with Eric about MS Office (have not upgraded since version 2000), I disagree about MS Windows. Pretty much everyone upgraded to XP and if they did not, they should, because it is so much better than 98. Linux may be a challenger in corporate/government setting, though I believe that support/transition costs are not trivial and getting fixes/updates/upgrades for open source software is not a solved problem either. In personal setting Linux is still lacking mostly for ease of use and installation, home software (Quicken? Money? Adobe Products - not sure if they have Linux versions? Wide scanner/printer/camera support? Games?). Those are mostly technical considerations though. Investment considerations may be quite different. Disclaimer: I own MSFT stock, I work for semi-competitor that runs mostly MSFT corporate setup, I like/prefer MSFT OS/setup to Linux Windows to Jurgis