From E week, reports of a MS study to disprove that buying software/ hardware via time machine does not, as the myths go, benefit linux over MS's offerings.

Seemingly It's news that "penguins can't fly"  This sounds very much like a boring day at Microsoft for them to come up with this .. I'm certainly not planning on buying a seven year old computer anytime soon, people give them to me.   However the point of  the study seems lost on me, not being a third world country and all .  From the article and the attendent comments all that MS proves here  is that older hardware can run linux.. can you see anyone spending $180  for xp pro to act as a fileserver where a free solution already exists?