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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: benwood who wrote (51983)	1/29/2006 6:02:23 PM
From: Marc Hyman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Thing is, the majority of people just want a few things -- digital photography, web browsing, e-mailing, write a letter or two, view PDF files plus Quicken/TurboTax. Quicken/Turbo is the only one I can't do under Linux, and I haven't explored dig. photo yet either. GIMP for digital photo. Not quite as nice as Photoshop, but plenty powerful. Maybe too powerful for the average user. The same is true for Photoshop. Microsoft will do anything and everything to make sure an alternative doesn't hit critical mass... They certainly will try. Long term I expect they will fail. Short term I own some MSFT (with a limit order). // marc