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Evidence of the company's increasing concern over open source can be found in the methods it used to try and convince Munich city council to continue using its software back in March 2003.
Back then, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer arrived in the German city to personally plead with the mayor not to switch to Linux after discovering that the city was unwilling to spend $36m to upgrade to the latest versions of Windows and Office. In addition, Microsoft offered a 90 per cent discount and an offer of millions of dollars worth of training and support services. Despite this, Munich opted for an open source solution instead.
If Microsoft can give 90 % discount for a government agency as rich as Germany, why doesn't it work out a plan to give cheaper solutions for countries like India to make Windows economic for the masses. It might be a worthy product for an economy like US, but are software prices reasonable and affordable for the third world countries.
To make technology global, why don't we all start supporting Open software. Start using Linux, Open Office, Firefox and a host of other utilities. The developers will follow as soon as they discover more and more people making the open switch. We could make atleast the basic software that runs on our computer free.
One more happy news for the Internet enthusiasists is the release of Google Talk. I'm just wondering what happens when Google integrates all its products Google talk, Hello, Picassa, Google earth, Gmail, Groups, Blogger, Orkut, Desktop search and ya don't forget Google CHEESE
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