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Microsoft Touts Windows On Linux Site
Jan 10, 2006, 01 :00 UTC (16 Talkback[s]) (8473 reads)

WebProNews: Microsoft Touts Windows On Linux Site

[ Thanks to Curt Howland for this link. ]

"Microsoft has long made various efforts to show how Windows exceeds Linux in a variety of enterprise situations, but a current advertising campaign by the company showed up in an unlikely place.

"To bolster the case of Windows as a better operating system choice than Linux, Microsoft picked up some advertising space and provided links to four whitepapers comparing the two OSes. Microsoft chose what some might see as an unusual site to publish that advertising: Linux Today. Jupitermedia runs Linux Today, a site which aggregates Linux news from a variety of sources..."

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Linux-Watch: Linux Benefits from Microsoft's Ads Against It

[ Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]

"I am shocked, shocked, I tell you to find out that Microsoft has ads on a Linux site!!

"For some reason beyond my little brain, digg.com readers are upset that 'Linux Today has sold a significant portion of their retail web space to Microsoft with a 'Linux Reference Center.' Microsoft then uses it to slam Linux...!'"

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
Independent Study Shows that Windows Ser ...   I love this part of MSFT's ad...   
David F. Skoll
Jan 10, 2006, 01:30:19
 
The 2005 survey reveals that users found ...   Oh, and there's more...   
David F. Skoll
Jan 10, 2006, 01:31:21
 
Thanks to the Microsoft ads, I have been ...   MS ads provide nice boycott list   
reformer
Jan 10, 2006, 01:31:35
 
I'm glad MS thinks enough of this si ...   MS add support   
Michael McGinty
Jan 10, 2006, 02:15:04
 
If you are going to take the trouble to  ...   false advertising   
Steve Stites
Jan 10, 2006, 03:04:30
 
...I don't even look at the right si ...   Been there for so long..   
Eric Brown
Jan 10, 2006, 04:28:35
 
I don't know if clicking them makes  ...   I love to click MS ads.   
Anonimouquis
Jan 10, 2006, 04:41:07
 
Its just competition!Linux is establishe ...   So what if they advertise?   
Kevin Jackson
Jan 10, 2006, 12:19:12
 
I believe that MSFT's use of the ter ...   Trademark violation?   
David F. Skoll
Jan 10, 2006, 13:33:34
 
There is one of the papers in the so cal ...   I Miss One of Those Ads   
C. Whitman
Jan 10, 2006, 20:30:17
 
I could understand a lot of fuss about t ...   What's the fuss ?   
Martin Farmilo
Jan 10, 2006, 22:13:23
 
Remember 'We desire to be the major  ...   Scream longer   
Doug Bostrom
Jan 11, 2006, 05:58:13
 
I like to click the Microsoft ads...  La ...   When I get bored...   
Wonderbird
Jan 11, 2006, 07:39:36
 
Let Microsoft do more of such campaigns  ...   Microsoft Get the Facts   
Praveen
Jan 11, 2006, 10:14:27
 
> The 2005 survey reveals that users fou ...   Re: Oh, and there's more...   
Joachim Holst
Jan 11, 2006, 11:11:50
 
Perhaps, but the "study" is not independ ...   Re: I love this part of MSFT's ad...   
C. Whitman
Jan 11, 2006, 17:03:54
 
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