Microsoft for Linux people

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 10:39:10AM -0400, John Van Ostrand wrote:
> Like will all OSes experience is everything. There are lots of books and
> courses out there but the real test is going to be working with the
> product for long enough that you get used to the subtleties.
> 
> An MS user group may be an option to help add to that experience (via
> others). One sprung up last year here in Waterloo. It seemed heavily
> supported by Microsoft and I suspect that it is an MS attempt at
> cultivating and astro-turf movement. You may find the same in the GTA.
> 
> Nowadays you will also find that MS puts on a lot of free seminars. Get
> plugged into their mailing lists go to the events and you could end up
> with free copies of OS software as well as cursory training on features
> and usable howtos.
> 
> I go to bring a little balance to the group. I've had articles posted
> and presented on Open Source topics. Some of these IT professionals had
> no idea open source was out there.
> 
> As an aside, I find it disturbing that we've seen two posts from people
> moving to Microsoft.

Well one was moving mac to windows, so that hardly counts as a big deal.
:)

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