Sunday, 18 February 2007

Hindu devotees at religious observances on Maha Sivarathri , the night of God Siva on Friday at the Sri Ponnampalavaneshvarar temple, which was built by Sir Ponnampalam Ramanathan at Kochchikade, Colombo. Here the devotees at prayers.
Pic by Chintaka Kumarasinghe.

Pirated software, the biggest competitor to Microsoft

Apple, Linux and open source software are competing with Windows but they are not the biggest challenges; the biggest competitor we have is pirated software, the General Manager Windows Client Group Microsoft Asia Pacific Kenneth Lundin said.

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