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Article #239Re: Anti-competitive behaviour by Microsoft?
From: Mark Dixon
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:34
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:34
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:24:24 +0000, Jonathan Rawle wrote: > Henry Law wrote: > >> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:46:38 +0000, Mike Tomlinson > >> name in these newsgroups; you'll tell the student body (I doubt >> Mircospot has many friends there); you'll write to the newspapers; > > Oh come on, you're thinking of 20 years ago when students were political. > They all use Windows now. Very few have any other experience of computers > other than Windows (something that has happened in the space of a few > years). Trying to teach programming is very difficult now - the students > even complain if they have to use a Unix command line and ask why they > can't have Windows! This is probably generally true, but as a recent computer science graduate, Microsoft didn't have an awful lot of friends among the students on my course. The genral purpose desktops accross the site were M$, but the computer science department was pretty much powered my Solaris (and some FreeBSD and Linux). Mark
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