Microsoft Challenges Linux's Legacy Claims

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday January 7, 2006 @04:37PM from the now-take-a-look-at-performance-tuning dept.

Michael writes "Microsoft Corp.'s Linux and open-source lab on the Redmond campus has been running some interesting tests of late, one of which was looking at how well the latest Windows client software runs on legacy hardware in comparison to its Linux competitors. The tests, which found that Windows performed as well as Linux on legacy hardware when installed and run out-of-the-box, were done in part to give Microsoft the data it needed to effectively 'put to rest the myth that Linux can run on anything.'"

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So guys by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-07 16:40 · Score: 5, Funny

how about those knicks?
Re:The Study didn't prove that at all by Fulcrum+of+Evil · 2006-01-07 17:05 · Score: 5, Funny

The myth they were actually trying to disprove is that Windows doesn't run on old hardware.

It isn't a myth: Windows doesn't run on a 486, it walks.

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