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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.
This is why I got stuck with a P100 running an old version of Red Hat as our VPN gateway and DNS server. Nothing like an undocumented pile of patched code running on hardware that could go tits up at any moment to inspire confidence in the network stability. We are a Windows shop, so that box is getting replaced with a 2k domain server as soon as I can get the budget aproved. It just makes no senes to have a bunch of Windows systems being dependant on an outdated Linux install, and while I would rather move everyone over to Solaris or at least have a Novell NDS rather then a Windows domain, the fact is that we make and sell a Windows product so the best option is a Windows environment. You know, best tool for the job rather then Linux just because.
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Thanks /., for providing an equally biased header:
...as the linux zealots start to look more like M$oft, i expect more of this unobjective banter.
Microsoft Rolls Out New Anti-Linux Ad Campaign
-- not anti-linux, just a comparison
from the fear-the-penguin dept.
-- biased that linux is some kind of threat
Anonymous Coward writes "Microsoft has launched a new ad campaign that purports to give 'objective third-party information' comparing Windows to Linux."
-- purports? it DOES give a comparison, more spin
See the ad campaign website for more, uh, facts.
-- "uh, facts", biased tone, there really are facts on the site.
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Business is business. "My company's product is better than Company X's product" is what every company has said since the beginning of time. Even with that said, from what I saw, Microsoft didn't say anything about Windows being better than Linux, just cheaper in some aspects. And looking at the costs of some of the Redhat Enterprise packages, that may actually be the case in certain instances. Microsofts funding of the studies doesn't mean jack about them being objective or not. It just means they paid for it, but didn't actually perform the study. Technically, that makes it objective. And I don't see what everyone's friggin problem is about Microsoft saying that its product has a lower TCO. At least they're not slandering people by calling them "lusers" or saying that their product "r0xors" or however the hell you "l33t" people spell crap.
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