This week I'm in Canada where shoppers can now go into more than 50 stores and walk out with a pre-installed Linux computer. At a recent technology conference I kept getting asked the same three questions:
Question 1: How much money can I save? Hundreds or even thousands. Microsoft Office XP alone is $450. You can get LindowsOS on a 1 GHz computer with 128 MB RAM, 10 GB hard drive, CDRW AND StarOffice 6.0 for less than the cost of Microsoft Office alone. Question 2: Is there comparable software? Yes — hundreds of great Linux programs for just about any task, all available at lindows.com/migrationprograms. Question 3: Can I work with my existing documents? Absolutely — StarOffice opens and saves .doc, .xls, and .ppt files. Hundreds of cautious users emailed us documents and were amazed when we returned them edited in StarOffice.
Michael Robertson, Lindows.com
