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		<title>Overcoming the Microsoft Inertia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What will change the landscape and make it possible for larger numbers of users, especially corporate users, to overcome Microsoft inertia? I'm tracking the development of software as a service, smartphones that don't do Windows and don't need to, Apple's OS X that may some day run Windows XP apps, and Linux on the desktop, which is growing fast in overseas markets.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=98</link>
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		<title>Apple Bakes Macs While Microsoft Fakes Flacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More Windows users are switching to Macs because their Windows PCs are out of date. People have finally figured out (after about a decade of it being true) that there is no penalty in switching from Windows to the Mac.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=97</link>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s Brand on the Run</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Microsoft brand is getting pummeled overseas, in the music industry, and in the server market. Can you even estimate how much good will has been lost? Gates and Ballmer must get indigestion every morning as they scan the headlines on their pocket PCs.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=96</link>
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		<title>iPhone Gives Microsoft the Worried Blues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has lots to worry about and can't point fingers at iPhone security while living in the glass house of Windows Mobile. This explains why the Gartner analysts that adhere to Microsoft's way of thinking took the first propaganda shot against the iPhone, calling it unfit for business due to lack of security measures.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=95</link>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s Interoperable Assimilation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is how Microsoft gets away with "interoperability" -- co-opting proven standards (like XML) and turning them into Microsoft pseudo-standards, which are then set as defaults for the program while offering the real standards as options.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=94</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Protection Racket Helps Novell with SuSE Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft's shakedown turned Novell into a Microsoft partner with SuSE Linux; now it has turned Xandros into a partner as well. Microsoft made them a deal they couldn't refuse. Like garbage hauling contractors in the Northeast Jersey of The Sopranos, Xandros and Novell have nothing to lose by paying tribute to Microsoft. Linux is thriving in the shadow of Microsoft's cold war.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=93</link>
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		<title>FUD-Slinging Microsoft Bullies Open Source Crowd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is resorting to a Cold War on Open Source and Linux, using fear and uncertainty as it primary weapons. Microsoft is using this threat to bring Open Source developers and Linux suppliers -- and their large clients -- to the bargaining table to pay licenses. The patents should be challenged, because many of them are probably suspect. But these patents probably won't be challenged in court, because Microsoft does not want a public legal fight. Microsoft would rather keep the Open Source community muttering underneath its breath, and reveal nothing.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=92</link>
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		<title>The Myth of the Insecure Mac</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If Apple's OS X ever became seriously vulnerable to a virus or worm in the wild, as Windows is routinely vulnerable to, it would create press headlines way, way beyond what you see now.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=90</link>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Windows PC Replacements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Updates, patches, and configurations for Microsoft Windows PCs throw businesses for a loop, and slowly the IT departments of these businesses are responding. And they're not jumping on the Windows Vista bandwagon. Herein lies a tale of two successful deployments of alternatives.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=89</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Blinked &#8212; iPod Sees Vista</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Among several Windows Vista patches released yesterday, Microsoft included one that lets iPods be disconnected without getting corrupted. This time, Microsoft blinked first and fixed the problem.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=88</link>
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