Also, re: software
I also suspect once we get past Office and anyn other work-mandated must-haves, I'll have much better luck finding OSS versions of anything else I want to put on her system for a *nix than for a Windows box.
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Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978|Andrew Grygus]