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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Jeremiah,</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I'm checking in from my grand
daughter's 100%-Ubuntu Gateway laptop.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Thank you for the heads up on
Microsoft. However, my lacks in today's terminology leave huge gaps
in my understanding. I'm hoping you will elaborate on the
implications you see.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Thank you very much,</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Steven</p>
<br>--- On <b>Sun, 2/15/09, Jeremiah T. Gray <i><jtg@intarcorp.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Jeremiah T. Gray <jtg@intarcorp.com><br>Subject: [Gslug-general] microsoft to open retail stores<br>To: "Seattle Linux Group" <gslug-general@gslug.org><br>Date: Sunday, February 15, 2009, 5:06 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">"Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) revealed Thursday that it plans to open a chain of company-branded retail stores in locations throughout the United States and the rest of the world. To spearhead the initiative, the software maker tapped former Wal-Mart executive David Porter. "<br><br>personally, i think this will be good news for everybody but m$ft. they've been so successful through exclusivity contracts and not actually having throats to choke; i can't fathom why they'd switch it up now..<br><br><a
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