Part 1
Windows XP costs money, Ubuntu is free which is a big deal if your busted, but if your in the market for a new machine is the hundred bucks or so that you pay for XP really a deal breaker?
Today's new XP machines also have an added twist in that they come with trial versions of application software. This further reduces the actual cost of the OS to the buyer, software company's pay vendors money to include their trial versions of software on new machines thus lowering the cost of new machines, some have estimated the purchases price of a new machines could include as little as $50.00 for the Windows OS. Not bad when you consider Windows XP and now Vista are compatible with nearly every title of application software on the planet. Come on admit it, compatibility with apps is everything.
As for me, I like the idea of free and open source software like Ubuntu but in the real world time is money and the money spent on XP or Vista is a drop in the bucket compared to the hours and hours one is likely to spend beating his head against the wall trying to get Ubuntu to do what Windows OS's have been doing for years, getting work done.
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