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Microsoft Attacks Linux With Retail-Training Talking Points
DesiVideoGamer writes "Over at Overclock.net, a user has posted screen-shots from Microsoft's 'ExpertZone' training course entitled 'Linux vs. Windows 7.' This course is available to BestBuy employees and will make them eligible for a $10 copy of Windows 7 upon completion." The screenshots linked show at least some creative interpretations of the state of Linux vs. Windows on a wide range of things, from media playback and video conferencing to ease of updates to (of all things) keeping your PCs "safer." Most of the claims, though, aren't concrete enough to be perfectly refuted. Writes DesiVideoGamer, "I think I now know why, when I enter BestBuy, the employees say the odd lies that they do."
No, a company should not slander their competitors to do more business. Propaganda results in an overall decline of the happiness of almost all consumers.
Umm, you just described every pro-Linux website I've ever seen. Slandering Microsoft is a major tool in the Linux advocate's handbag. Your ignorance and hypocrisy make me physically ill.
It's not slander if it's the truth.
I'm glad you guys gave gotten over the year of the Linux desktop after 7 or so years. The year of the MS shill, on the other hand, is even more annoying.
Despite popular belief, most Linux users don't hate or berate Microsoft. This is a stereotype. Remove it from your brain.
This might be true, but unfortunately it is the 5-10% who genuinely are rabid, who are also the most vocal. Hence, that's what we primarily see.
I'm sick and tired of this new fad that Slashdot seems is goes through, which is mostly a mentality that everyone here thinks Linux is perfect. No, they don't. Nobody does.
Here's the problem. You quite possibly are one of the few sane, rational, non-autistic Linux users who exist; I will concede the possibility, however unlikely it might be.
However, whenever the rest of us try and accept that idea that maybe, possibly, some Linux users are normal, Stallman's drones have a disturbing tendency to immediately start clawing their way up through the ground in large numbers.
Other than when we visit Slashdot, reminding ourselves to ensure that we always pack a mallet, possibly some holy water, and a wooden stake, how exactly do you suggest that we deal with that problem?