Indian School logs Microsoft out

Shiv wrote:

its frustrating when discussion on technology turns into discussion on politics. if this decision is based on some plan i welcome this.

you guys may help me out on this. i was discussing on windows vista yesterday when all of a sudden a friend of mine said that windows will become slower when run over a period of time when compared to debian and his only proof was that a "very good person on OSS " told him so ? . i didnt bother to discuss about it as 1) he certainly does not have any clue on what he is talking about
2) my lack of experience on running both debian and windows anytime longer than one day.

Just from my experience, it's not so much that Windows becomes slower, but the average user installs so much garbage on their machine (not even including malware), a Windows install just gets bogged down from automatic startup programs, bloated registry, etc..  Many Windows users believe you must reinstall Windows about every 6 months because "it just gets slow."  Most Free software programs do not set themselves to startup everytime, with the exception of servers, so this could be one reason your friend believes this. 

It's purely user error, IMO... I've seen machines with close to a hundred startup programs, with nary a virus to be found.  A properly maintained Windows install is just as speedy as a Linux box.