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    17 days ago

    Back in Balmers days there would have been a mysterous briefcase men suggesting adjusted prices for all future MS involvement.

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        Probably, but back then they were really aggressive and even went after some small school in ass end of the world, because local newspapers had informed that the school was planning to swap computer lab devices to use various open source operating systems.

        In went the MS briefcase man and the plans were scrapped in silence.