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Microsoft Found Guilty of Misleading Advertising

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the everybody-play-nicely dept.

gtoomey writes "The UK Advertising Standards Authority has upheld complaints that Microsoft misled consumers by running advertisements claiming Linux is 10 times more expensive than Windows. The print advertisements used "independent research" to compare the cost of Linux on an expensive mainframe to Windows on a PC."

2 of 608 comments (clear)

  1. Re:In essence... by phauxfinnish · · Score: 0, Redundant
    diamond studded cup holder
    A cup-holder! Thats what the little sliding tray is for! THANK YOU!
  2. a cancer to be dealt with by davidsyes · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is what microsoft (lower-casing/deprecation intentional!) has been and is continuing to demonstrate itself as;

    hence why I describe them as:

    "-voracious (computing, real estate, banking, entertainment...)
    -omnivorous (buy up real or file fake patents)
    -belligerent (FUD, pre-empt moms & pops)
    -bellicose- (funding BSA, (no, not the Boy Scouts))
    -obtuse (pricing)
    -sprially spawning into numerous markets (see item above... let us hope they don't end up in airline cockpits)
    -prevaricators (faked video testimony, ROI, etc...)"

    in:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=119111&cid=1 00 60564

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