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Microsoft Rolls Out New Anti-Linux Ad Campaign
Anonymous Coward writes "Microsoft has launched a new ad campaign that purports to give 'objective third-party information' comparing Windows to Linux." See the ad campaign website for more, uh, facts.
At least they didn't compare Linus to Karl Marx.
I for one will sleep better at night knowing that Microsoft is out there looking out for our best interests and performing impartial research for which OS is better for us the consumer. With benevolent corporations like that we hardly need to research or even think for ourselves.
"Anything is possible with enough programmers, time and pizza." (Substitute caffeine for time as needed.)
Can't we all just get along?
This is just more FUD from the master. "Please sir, may I keep just 1 PC that runs DOS"?
Fitting cartoon.
In Soviet Russia, the television watches YOU!
Here is where he began...
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Instead of making stupid comments like this why don't you try to refute the facts presented
as a poster, this is your job.
We're like rats, in some experiment! -- George Costanza
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The Nemesis of MicroSoft.
Here's a little NDA violation:
We found out FreeBSD scales 3 times better than windows 2000 advanced server.
Sorry, but I'd love to see them sue you.
Headline: Microsoft sues their former researchers for disclosing that free software operating system is "3 times better" than Windows.
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Mr. Fox. Please have a seat. I see you have applied for the "Hen House Security" position. I have to say that, judging by your resume, you are certainly sly enough for the job.
Tell you what. The job is yours. If it doesn't work out we can just go our separate ways. What's the worst that could happen?
Nothing screams quality like a browser-scaled GIF for the company logo!
I'm just shocked... that the documents are in .PDF instead of .doc
They were probably typed up in OpenOffice.org Writer, on RedHat 9 anyway.
But can I just say something really quick? This won't take long, and I believe it is completely relevant to the MS vs Linux ordeal. Okay here goes:
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Jean Bozman, Al Gillen, Charles Kolodgy, Dan Kusnetzky, Randy Perry, and David Shiang IDC
A study of total smells of delevopers over five years for working corporate infrastructure shows that lower staffing smells are a large part of an 811-922% cost advantage for Windows. For teams of 4-8 developers in particular:
1. They ignore you.
2. They laugh at you.
3. They fight you.
4. You win.
5. Profit!
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain
Sorry, just can't resist a chance to waste some karma :-)
Paranoia isn't an infectious condition, it's a way of life
No warranties? Where's Laura Didio when you need her?
Oh, and don't use so many caps Microsoft, it's lame.
On the topic of staffing, of course it is cheaper, you can just pay the janitor to click Start-Shutdown-Restart a few times a day.
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
"WinTel Server 10 Times Less Expensive to Operate Than Linux Mainframe" Its a mainframe! not a Intel box! No wonder its 10 times less expensive!
In the words of the immortal John Candy:
"If these people told you 'Wolverines make good house pets' would you believe that too?"
All generalizations are false, including this one. Mark Twain
"10 times less expensive" compared to Linux, eh? Well, ignoring the fact that they are comparing mainframes to intel boxes, you just have to love their wording. Ten times less expensive? What the hell does that mean? Perhaps it's 1/10th the cost, but even for marketing droids, that's a pretty stupid thing to say.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, consider this. If it's 20 degrees outside, and it's twice as cold at your friend's house, how cold is it there?
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> Kinda like using Little Big Horn to demonstrate Custer's tactical ability.
Yeah, but it DID reduce his staffing costs by a significant margin
Don't you mean '...for dislosing that dead software operating system is "3 times better"...'
;-)
Why is this new "anti-Linux" guy Taylor trying all the same "anti-Linux" PR campaign tactics that didn't work before? I'd even swear that some of these were the same white papers MS released last year.
New campaign,
Old campaign,
Still sounds the same,
BURMA SHAVE.
"Lawyers are for sucks."
- Doug McKenzie
shouldn't it be Microhard?
Just in your case....
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
I don't post enough to have karma to burn, but what the hell :)
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Does Microsoft's TCO figure for Linux include the $699/CPU SCO license?
CEE5210S The signal SIGHUP was received.
Now you know what all the ohhing and ahhing was all about!
I wouldn't mind having that as a laptop!
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
Well, since we have to take "God" out of the Pledge, we aughtta replace it with something that makes sense, and doesn't offend the fragile sensibilities of athiests.
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
The most important criticism of Linux -- the most honest, the most brutal -- the one that you all know in your hearts is true but can't bring yourself to admit for fear of slowing adoption -- is in that PDF, on page 23.
Check it out, it is surely going to be Microsoft's biggest gun.
1996 called, they want their browser back.
Mozilla
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Shhhhhh...
... and in the commercials for the "Pepsi Challenge" with a blind taste-test, I see that everybody who participated (including Sammy Sosa) preferred Pepsi.
Of course it's objective, right?
The Optimist says the glass is half full The Pessimist says the glass is half empty The Marketing Manager says you need to resize your glass. Dumbed down for the Trolls to understand. "Smart enough to understand Linux...but not smart enough to comprehend common sense." -Linus Torvalds
"The first thing we must do is kill all the lawyers" - Henry VI, Wm. Shakespeare
Is it just me, or does the whole ad sound like the marketing department reworked a "Netcraft confirms it: BSD is dying" troll?
philcrissman.com.
You misspelled "anything not from Krikket^H Microsoft".
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
See? All you non-conspiracy nuts, there is a link between Microsoft and Ashcroft! They both got defeated by a dead opponent! ;-)
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
Both are low quality products. Here's a nickel, get yourself a real UNIX computer.
Haven't read much Slashdot, have you?
Guess what. Outside Slashdot, there's a whole other world.
... when they make 5 year averages of TCO with an OS that hasn't existed for 5 years.