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Like I have always said - Microsoft lies blatantly about OSS and Linux
The excerpts below  are from Wikipedia and substantiate a position I have held for many years regarding both the TCO of Linux vs. Windows Server and the depths to which Microsoft will sink in its pursuit of market dominance.

Cybersource TCO study: Linux versus Windows

Melbourne-based Cybersource compared in 2004 the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of running Linux versus Windows in the enterprise. Its studies found that Linux was 36% cheaper than Windows, when taking into account the software cost as well as service, support and upgrades. The study done in 2004 was an update on their previous studies in 2002, and found the same results.

I believe that in small deployments, Linux may be as much as 65-75% cheaper in three-year TCO than Windows Server, when you factor in the cost per user--consider the following:

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Thunderbird forwards .eml to iPhone solved
An email message forwarded by Thunderbird with .eml extension is unreadable on iPhone.

For many years, I have had my Mac Thunderbird 2.x and 3.x configured to auto-forward certain emails via filter to my iPhone.

The problem has been that in spite of being told to send the auto-forwards as "inline" attachements, the iphone sees the '.eml' extension and will not permit viewing/opening of any attachements with ".eml" extensions. I have finally solved this incredibly vexing problem:

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Future hard drive formats will be incompatible with Windows XP

Yikes, jinkies, and all that other stuff that the kids from Scooby Doo used to say--

The Ars Technica link below will bring you a startling new article about the incompatibility of future hard drive formats with Windows XP.

Link to article