Comments on: Microsoft or Open Source? http://odeskinsider.com/blog/microsoft-vs-linux/ Freelancing is more fun with oDesk Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:09:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nelson http://odeskinsider.com/blog/microsoft-vs-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-201 Nelson Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:40:55 +0000 http://www.odeskinsider.com/blog/microsoft-vs-linux/#comment-201 Not to knock the Micro$oft (they are successful for a reason), but I like to keep people informed of their options. I use MS products as well, but only when I absolutely have to. I had a bad experience with about 40K words getting chewed up and spat out as something resembling assembly code, so I go with Open Office (which also runs under Windows). I totally agree that it's a really bad idea to switch OSs or software when you've got data in the works and you don't absolutely understand the migration process. Not to knock the Micro$oft (they are successful for a reason), but I like to keep people informed of their options. I use MS products as well, but only when I absolutely have to. I had a bad experience with about 40K words getting chewed up and spat out as something resembling assembly code, so I go with Open Office (which also runs under Windows).

I totally agree that it’s a really bad idea to switch OSs or software when you’ve got data in the works and you don’t absolutely understand the migration process.

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