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eWeek: Get the Facts Right on Linux, Microsoft
Apr 7, 2005, 01 :15 UTC (8 Talkback[s]) (8740 reads)

(Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)

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

"Last year, Microsoft launched an advertising blitz against Linux titled 'Get the Facts,' or as I liked to call it, 'Get the FUD.'

"Some of Microsoft's 'facts' came from research by The Yankee Group. Then, Microsoft claimed that Yankee had found that switching to Linux from Windows was "prohibitively expensive, extremely complex [and] provides no tangible business gains.'

"Things have changed..."

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Related Stories:
InfoWorld: Microsoft Gets More 'Facts' for Anti-Linux Campaign(Apr 06, 2005)
Reuters: Study Shows Microsoft, Linux Neck-And-Neck(Apr 04, 2005)
eWeek: Get The FUD(Jan 07, 2004)


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Apr 7, 2005, 08:06:02
 
Weston said he has found that resellers  ...   Frontpage Extensions   
Penn Gwyn
Apr 7, 2005, 10:47:22
 
I first saw linux running in '93, an ...   Sometimes, I'm amazed   
Myddrin
Apr 7, 2005, 11:51:02
 
>>What amazes me is the turn around the  ...   Re: Sometimes, I'm amazed   
hindenburg
Apr 7, 2005, 14:32:06
 
How wonderful it would be to have a *nix ...   Re: Re: Sometimes, I'm amazed   
Dennis Soper
Apr 7, 2005, 15:08:05
 
> How wonderful it would be to have a *n ...   Re: Re: Sometimes, I'm amazed   
George
Apr 7, 2005, 15:14:53
 
"How wonderful it would be to have a *ni ...   Re: Re: Sometimes, I'm amazed   
Mike Johnson
Apr 7, 2005, 16:23:18
 
"How wonderful it would be to have a *ni ...   Re: Re: Sometimes, I'm amazed   
Gene Anthony
Apr 8, 2005, 09:20:17
 
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