Microsoft's "Get the facts" campaign sacked
Thrax
🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
For years, Microsoft has been locked in a struggle to stem the growth rate of Linux as a viable platform. Over the last decade, Linux's encroachment has been rapid and apparent, such as in the case of Dell and Lenovo beginning to offer Linux pre-loaded on select PCs. Linux's desktop and server market share continues to climb, and naturally it makes Microsoft a little bit nervous.
In the early part of this decade, Microsoft launched a "Get the facts" website which attempted to blast Linux on numerous grounds including compatibility, security and total cost of ownership (TCO). As of 23 August, 2007, however, the site has been sacked in favor of of the new "Compare" campaign which is a little softer around the edges.
We can only wonder what spurred the motion: The fact that the website was silly, or the fact that Novell, Linspire and Xandros can now all be counted amongst its partners.
We also wonder who picked that background color. Yikes.
In the early part of this decade, Microsoft launched a "Get the facts" website which attempted to blast Linux on numerous grounds including compatibility, security and total cost of ownership (TCO). As of 23 August, 2007, however, the site has been sacked in favor of of the new "Compare" campaign which is a little softer around the edges.
We can only wonder what spurred the motion: The fact that the website was silly, or the fact that Novell, Linspire and Xandros can now all be counted amongst its partners.
We also wonder who picked that background color. Yikes.
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Propaganda, propaganda, propaganda
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Microsoft is a good platform for a lot of things, make no mistake but it's not as good as they would have you believe for others.
I recently spent some time evaluating an ESB (enterprise service bus) and the good old Microsoft option (Biztalk) is woefully inadequate in comparison to the leading open source alternative (apache servicemix).
The TCOs on that website are equally suspect. It's unsurprisingly NOT a good "compare".
That is about as good as it can be said. My take- MS is really better suited for the consumer and general office market ... but it seems that alternative OSs and applications are making serious in-roads anyhow. My company is converting some systems to Linux and I'm discovering more home users are using Linux/Open Office, etc.- the price being MUCH more palatable and the incompatibilty/inconvenience not as bad as they thought.