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Heard from the slashdot vine

I heard the following comment on slashdot and I thought it was a cool way of dealing with the windows to linux migration. The peeps were talking about Microsoft not being worried about Firefox!

So try this approach, I use it.

Setup an X server with a pretty desktop.

Tell the users "We'd like to enable you to work faster. From this point forward, just doubleclick this. We installed a new version of Office and Internet explorer, they are called OpenOffice and Firefox. If you don't like this, feel free to use your Windows98 system."

I had zero Win98 users within a month, and zero Windows XP users within 3 months. That's a 400+ user environment.

They still think it's new Windows. The management thinks that not paying for 400 terminal services licenses is priceless.
Coool, shows that you can really move away you know.

i am manulite

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