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Microsoft's Magical 'Myth-Busting' Tour
Mz6 writes "Microsoft has launched its 'Get the Facts' road show -- the tech equivalent of a political battle bus -- to tour the country and convince the wavering that Redmond is as at least cheap and as secure as its open-source rival and to spread the word that Windows is better than Linux. Nick McGrath, Microsoft's head of platform strategy, described the campaign as 'a reality check we're bringing out', aiming to tackle the 'myths' surrounding Linux. Microsoft's road show will be in Edinburgh on June 17, Manchester on June 29 and Newport on July 7."
"La-La-La-La-Myth-Busting-Tour!
Nick,
This word 'reality', I do not think it means what you think it means.
Oh, wait...
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
I'll burn off some Knoppix cd's and Crash the party!
(will they have booth babes?)
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
RJR and Phillip Morris unveiled their plans for a traveling road show to promote cigarettes as an effective weight loss solution as well as a stimulant and antidepressant.
Interociter
-=What do I want? I'm an American. I want more.
I was hoping this was going on in the US...it would be fun to attend. If only to jeer and heckle.
Hopefully some British LUGs will be on the case.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
>Redmond is as at least cheap and as secure as its open-source rival
Yes, and I am as at least rich as Bill Gates.
Andrej
Hello,
Windows is the best OS, you know. If you use it, you find it makes your mind processes improve all the time, it teaches you how to temple your nerves when something goes wrong (very often, I mean)... and it's much more beautiful (there's something magical in that funny blue screen, don't you think so?)
Muaaaaaaaaaks
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You'd stumble in my footsteps (Depeche Mode, "Walking in my shoes")
This just in...
Apparently Microsoft's tour bus crashed because of a faulty driver.
Unknown host pong.
Cheap as in "look at all the free software that gets downloaded to your computer" cheap. Or maybe cheap as in the type of shots that will be flying around here soon :-)
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Say what you want about cigarettes, I never wanted to strangle Joe Camel. Clippy on the other hand...
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
I bet that their battle bus is really just one of those short yellow buses.
MYTH 1) Linux is actually a pleisiosaur from the cretatious period living in a lake in Scotland.
FACT: Linux is an operating system kernel.
MYTH 2) In Mandarin Chinese, the phrase GNU/Linux, loosely translated, means "Bit the wax tadpole."
FACT: Linux is developed by hard working, intelligent programmers who submit their source code to a community repository, where fans of the operating system can retreive, adapt, and download the kernel at their leisure.
MYTH 3) In 1953, a saucer full of Linux crashed landed on a farm in Roswell, New Mexico.
FACT: Linux is used in solutions from many of the top software firms around the world, including IBM and Sun Microsystems. Because of its open codebase, it is easy to adapt to just about any hardware configuration without costly customizations.
MYTH 4) Douching with Linux directly after sex prevents pregnancy and/or veneral disease.
FACT: Linux installations make up as much as five percent of the desktop computers in active use, and as much as 80% of webservers.
MYTH 5) Linux is a quality server operating system but still kind of a shoddy platform for everyday usage due to a number of conflicting desktop standards, graphical toolkits and a tireless devotion to supporting underpowered legacy systems rather than creating a single, modern standard. Attempts to critique this obvious shortcoming are met with an intensely emotional tirade that neither solves the inherent problem nor serves to edify the critic.
FACT: Actually, this is entirely true.
Hey freaks: now you're ju
Don't worry....
You suck too
WhiteWolf666 an exBush supporter. All you new-school,compassionate,save the children Republicans can rot in hell
I'm looking forward to when they drive to the US.
Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but copyright will always protect me.
for the internationally-impaired, the tour is in the UK.
Where is this UK you speak of?
We American have never fought a war with UK so that why I don't know where it's at.
What? Me fail history and geography? That's umpossible!
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
MS Rep: Microsoft is now more secure than ever, not to mention our proven track record of security in the past.
Person 1: Hasn't your security been laughed at in the past?
MS Rep: Microsoft's NT and 2000 platforms set the ground work for our current XP OS.
Person 1: Maybe, but hasn't your Windows 95, and 98 OS's been nothing but trouble?
Person 2: Yeah and what about Millenium?
MS Rep: Windows 95 and 98 are just older and so are not supported anymore, I have no idea what this Millenium is you speak of.
Person 2: What are you talking about of course you do I have a install disk righ there.
MS Rep2: We don't know what you are talking about, security please escort this man out.
Person 3: Hay what about the bug reports on IE that occur every week.
MS Rep: Ok will security please escort out all the slashdot and wired readers, thanks.
MS Rep: So what do we think of MS now?
MS Rep2: I think its great
Ave Molech Setting
If there's one thing that Reagan has taught us, is that truth always beats falsehoods.
I don't remember that.
I wish they would do another tour in Flanders. I would know what to wear.
what to bring along.
And where to get someone to get me out of prison again.
Not yet.
But, uh, you wouldn't know if they might have, well, oil there, would you?
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
I'd say the odds were pretty much zero.
The only thing that could save MSFT now is a fully operational death star.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
They might make it; sounds like they got the right kind of drugs going already. Coupla more hits and they'll make it.
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I guess you're not familiar with Novell's marketing department...
No... they finally realized Word keeps track of prior edits and they did not want everyone to find out the real goodies.
My karma is not a Chameleon.
Just in case this latest tour doesn't work, I'd like to offer some suggestions for Microsoft's marketing department for future promotions:
g ineer certification, which is in effect, a room where they strap people to chairs a la "A Clockwork Orange" and show them a never ending stream of Steve Balmer video speeches.
* Produce a study that reveals "Linux users have smaller penises"
* Include free Windows 2000 server license in new McDonald's Happy Meals.
* Purchase one of the Internet backbone providers and start refusing to process packets from non-Microsoft networks.
* Offer Microsoft-Certified-Linux-Professional-Systems-En
* Release "Windows For Linux" desktop which at first appears to be a window manager, but actually removes Linux and installs Server 2000.
* Start rumor that Linus Torvalds is a member of Al Quaeda.
* Get patent on common sense and free thinking and charge all Linux users with IP infringement.
* Update scripts of upcoming Star Wars and Harry Potter movies to show that Darth Vader and Valdemort are "powered by Linux."