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Ways To Reduce Business Debts
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was replaced with a bare page under a headline that read “Ubuntu 7.04 - Well Done.”

There were just two sentences under the headline: “Thank you to everyone who has helped make Ubuntu 7.04 a reality. Thousands of you have helped code, test, translate and promote Ubuntu and everyone can celebrate today’s release.”

Below the note were links to servers in 30-odd countries where the 700MB file (an ISO disc image) could be downloaded.

The lack of hype wasn’t the only thing that set Ubuntu apart.

Seven Social Bookmarking Tips For Webmasters
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LEAVE it to Bill Gates. There’s a reason he’s the richest man in the world.

On a visit to China last April, he announced a program that would sell a $3 bundle of Windows XP and MS Office to governments in poor countries that subsidize computer purchases by students.

“All human beings deserve a chance to achieve their full potential,” Gates said in announcing Microsoft’s latest program to bridge the digital divide.

It was a public relations coup and a shrewd business move besides.

Now $3 is a great price for MS Office 2007, even though it’s the Home and Student Edition that doesn’t have PowerPoint. But Windows XP Starter Edition is a crippled version of a five-year-old operating system, with networking disabled and multitasking severely limited.

So the software isn’t great, but it’s good enough to do the job.

Unfortunately, the “job” isn’t just personal productivity, it’s technology lock-in. It’s all about creating a new generation of computer users who are hooked on Windows and programs that run under the proprietary operating system.

Microsoft isn’t shy about this goal of “reaching the next billion” computer users and tying them in to its technology.

“Many of these people we think are going to be consumers down the road,” said Orlando Ayala, senior vice president for Microsoft’s emerging segments market development group.

A closer look at the $3-deal also exposes software pricing as an artificial and arbitrary affair. Why sell software priced at hundreds of dollars for just $3. Why not $2? Or $5?

Even the Starter Edition is an arbitrary, marketing-oriented creation that artificially limits the functionality of software. It harks back to the day when some marketing geniuses at Intel decided to sell a version of the 486 processor with the math co-processor disabled, simply so it could sell the same chip at a lower price—without having customers who were willing to pay more for it complain. Crippling a piece of software so you can sell it cheaply makes just as much sense.

Significantly, Microsoft’s $3 offer comes at a time when the open source Linux operating system is becoming increasingly popular as a free alternative to Windows on desktop and notebook computers. By aiming its program at developing countries, Microsoft seems determined to head off Linux in markets where the free alternative is most likely to thrive at Windows’ expense.

But in the same week that Gates announced the $3 subsidy, a major software milestone passed without fanfare.

There was no Times Square countdown. No whiz-bang demo by an aging technology guru. No big advertising campaign or clever TV commercials. With a refreshing lack of marketing hype, the latest version of Ubuntu, one of the most popular Linux distributions, was released to the general public on April 19.

On that day, the Ubuntu home page was replaced with a bare page under a headline that read “Ubuntu 7.04 - Well Done.”

Below the note were links to servers in 30-odd countries where the 700MB file (an ISO disc image) could be downloaded.

The lack of hype wasn’t the only thing that set Ubuntu apart.

Wholesale List: Cautions You Should Take Before Buying Them
It is obvious that if you are in the wholesale business like many small business entrepreneurs, you then know that a wholesale list is file where you get specialized amounts of distributors, wholesalers and liquidation centers that can make your business outrageously profitable almost immediately. What many of the starting entrepreneurs like I use to be 2 years ago with specialized distributors- is that many of the wholesale distributor list being advertised on the Internet are complete scams that offer just more of the same- outdated contacts that can not be found anywhere near to the addr

tworking disabled and multitasking severely limited.