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"Well, Google has taken the next step in its world domination plan, banning Microsoft Windows from internal use.

Employees will be given the choice between Apple's Mac OS and Linux.

Adding insult to injury, Google is also publicly citing Windows security problems for the decision and blaming Windows vulnerabilities for the China hacking incident.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/05/31/businessinsi...

When windows phone 7 was demo-ed last month everyone was stepping all over themselves trying to give the most complimentary reviews, talking about how they "out-appled Apple."  People let their dreams run wild, and imagined it would fix all of the iPhones shortcomings - multitasking, app store naziism, copy-paste, etc...  As it gets closer to launch, though, they're having to meet w/ reality...

Some points people don't often think about when they're considering operating systems:

Poisoning education, locking in users, abusing standards such as OpenDocument Format (ODF), leveraging monopolistic behavior, threatening user security, enforcing Digital Rights Management (DRM) at the request of entertainment companies concerned about movie and music piracy, and invading privacy.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137119/Free_software_group_attac...

"In an effort to rid every computer in the country of the American-designed Windows OS, the Cuban government has banned the software and created its own Linux-based operating system.