Microsoft Axes 'Get The Facts'

tom66 writes "Seems like a long time coming, as Microsoft today has axed it's Anti-Linux campaign 'Get the Facts', and Microsoft has replaced it with a new campaign, called 'compare'. This article touches up on why they may have done it, and the criticism surrounding Get the Facts."

Comments

Funny, the ad right below the story...

[Anonymous Coward]

... is telling me to Get the Facts...

from microsoft:

[Anonymous Coward]

Given that the /compare site will provide 3rd party information, Get the Facts will be retired as a destination." Destination? It's a web page, not a tropical resort.

The original version:

[weak*]

Microsoft Axes 'Get the Facts,' Announces 'Kill the Penguin' - Will commission Metallica to record a song to be played on the site.

Re:Out with the old FUD.

[ScrewMaster]

I was reading a while back that Microsoft does have internal communications problems between the operating system and applications divisions. I mean, sometimes the guys working on Office don't even have all the information on the secret APIs the OS folks come up with.

New Focus

[rlp]

They are no doubt focusing all their PR efforts on their forthcoming new product.

Re:New Focus

[Anonymous Coward]

Take a look at the B & O phone then.

cool support videos

[arghileh]

now i know where i can go to find out how to configure linux services the RedHat and SuSE approved way. Thank you microsoft for those VERY handy videos.

Windows Powershell

[Capricous]

because if you use loonix and you want to kill a process you have to use
ps xu | grep konqueror | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -9

Re:Windows Powershell

[EvanED]

Ha, I love how the IE window that he's killing has Google open.

Re:Windows Powershell

[pyrrhonist]

C'mon, I'm sure I missed something - let's get this optimized!

Optimized for former Windows users:

# reboot

Elmer Fud

[flyingfsck]

It is a good thing the Linux mascot is a penguin and not a rabbit, or we would have had Elmer Fud singing 'Kill the Wabbit!'

Re:Elmer Fud

[_Sprocket_]

It is a good thing the Linux mascot is a penguin and not a rabbit, or we would have had Elmer Fud singing 'Kill the Wabbit!' "Be vewwy, vewwy quiet... I'm huntin' pwengins... hwaah haah haah..." [throws a chair]

Hmmm. It could still work.

Next step....

[ingo23]

1. Get the facts
2. Compare
3. Oops!

The REAL facts

[Cyko_01]

if you want to get the facts from people who know what they are talking about then check wikipedia. this is the ONLY way to get unbiased results. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Windows _and_Linux

Re:The REAL facts

[petrus4]

*Experiences sudden violent fit of coughing*

Yes...because as we all know, Wikipedia is a source of information that is totally neutral, unbiased, and objective, and is not subject to any form of inappropriate manipulation or interference whatsoever.

Their policy says so.

Re:Out with the old FUD.

[tedrlord]

Kickstart + yum pales in comparison the DDD + RIS.

Wow, I never thought of it that way. Your convincing argument totally changes my mind about everything. I'm never using Linux again!

Re:it's not advertisement o_O

[Random_Goblin]

I'd suggest you check the video for power shell:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/vid eos/windowspowershell.wvx
Any reason why this video is on the Microsoft website?

You've made a parsing error that's not windows power shell, but Windows Powers Hell, its an advert showing how one of their big clients has seen huge rises in productivity since they shifted the demons from Gentoo to Windows ME

obviously for this particular client increased productivity == increased suffering, but i understand a lot of companies use the same metric...