Uncle Sam makes companies happy, if you are huge.  Here is the GSA price, what we taxpayers pay, when a bureaucrat buys something, and here is what you can pay on the open market.  Do you suppose the thing is all that important to begin with?

I've said Microsoft success has been based on the growth or government, wherein the pointless tasks millions were hired to do in the last 30 years were performed on Microsoft software, explaining why Windows is so relentlessly a timewaster.

Now that govt spending is cutting back, and people actually have to perform, Apple is top.

Cisco has warned on earnings based on cutbacks in govt spending.  Cisco networks all of those Windows systems,  on behalf of vast featherbedded staffing, which perform no particular function except for online shopping and whatever viewing on which govt workers devote their days.  Time for them to come out and play with the rest of us.  A Quote from the article:

"Unfortunately, we believe that our concerns in the public sector will continue to be challenging in the developed world for the next several quarters," he said, adding that Cisco's government accounts in the United States, Europe and Japan had all been hit in the fiscal second quarter.

"The challenges at state, local, and eventually federal level in our opinion will worsen over the next several quarters," he said of the U.S. market.

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