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• Windows Not Efficient
  Sorry, there's no comparison here. The excessive energy usage of the millions of PC's and servers that use Windows caused by Microsoft's inefficient code (and their need to add complexity for security and inefficient virus scanners) most likely far outweighs any effort they put forth to curtail energy usage.

  June 6, 2006

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• If only you use Open Sorurce exclusively,
  ...we wouldn't need things like this. Does anyone know of an all-open-source company?

  May 11, 2006

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• Yes, millions HAVE been compromosed
  William Tait,
  
  From the article this is linked to:
  
  "More than a million PCs have already been compromised, said Andreas Marx, an antivirus software specialist at the University of Magdeburg in Germany. He has found a hidden Web site that shows how many copies of a program that installs malicious software have been delivered to vulnerable PCs."
  
  So, yes, Windows PC's HAVE been compromised by this flaw.

  January 4, 2006

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• You're missing the point
  While you are correct for the current Word .doc format, please keep in mind that it may be encumbered by patents (which Microsoft has chosen not to assert yet). Also keep in mind that the next version, WordML, is definitely encumbered by patents.
  
  Let's consider this scenario. Supose your county courthouse upgrades to Office 12 when it comes out. Then, suppose that Bill Gates has a frontal lobotomy and Microsoft ceases to exist. Any documents created under Office 12 will not be readable except by those PC's that currently have it installed; since MS no longer exists, you can't buy any new copies of Office 12. Furthermore, the copies you have now may cease to work as hardware breaks and you're unable to re-install (due to the package not being able to "phone home" to MS, which no longer exists.
  
  Had those documents been in ODF format, you'd still be able to read them; but since they're in WordML format, you are unable to read them.
  
  If an event in history occurs and the document used to record that history is no longer readable, did that bit of history ever occur?

  November 10, 2005

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