Microsoft's business model of flogging expensive software to outfits that will have to buy it again in four years is starting to wear at the elbows. It is not because the outfit is being undercut by free software from Linux either.
Redmond's main problem is the popularity of cut price hardware which runs on a lower spec. True, netbooks are starting to drop out of fashion, but they are being replaced by ultra-thin notebooks which run on lower specs than their notebook or desktop equivalents. Microsoft wants to stick Windows 7 into these machines but the problem is that the Operating System is a huge chunk of the final cost.
Smart users are wondering why they are bothering if there is other software out there that will do the same thing.
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