13 lies on the Microsoft website.

[slave]

1.)

"Windows offers a lower overall total cost than UNIX."

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/migrate/unix/businessvalue.asp

2.)

"While the Linux software is practically free, implementing it is far from free."

http://www.microsoft.com/sbserver/evaluation/compare/linux.asp

3.)

"Open Source does not an ecosystem make"

http://members.microsoft.com/partner/products/windows/WindowsCE/CEWhyWindowsCENETNotEmbLinux.aspx

(What, is Yoda working for Microsoft now?)

4.)

"Linux is not free"

http://members.microsoft.com/partner/products/windows/WindowsCE/CEWhyWindowsCENETNotEmbLinux.aspx

5.)

"Microsoft's approach has paid off for customers in the form of lower total cost of ownership. "

http://members.microsoft.com/partner/products/servers/windows2000server/idc.aspx

6.)

"One cannot delete the Web browser from KDE without losing the ability to manage files on the user's own hard disk."

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/madnick/madnick.asp

7.)

"Linux is typically much slower than Microsoft and Microsoft partners to consistently deliver the tools needed to stay current with new hardware requirements and new technologies."

http://www.microsoft.com/sbserver/evaluation/compare/linux.asp

8.)

"Linux offers no reliability framework to enhance system reliability."

(I'm not really sure what that even means.)

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/Embedded/sak/evaluation/compare/advantage.asp

9.)

"Linux is still an immature and fragmented market"

http://members.microsoft.com/partner/products/Servers/SmallBusinessServer/linux.aspx

10.)

"Linux offers no browser that is feature-equivalent to IE 5.5"

http://members.microsoft.com/partner/products/windows/WindowsCE/CEWhyWindowsCENETNotEmbLinux.aspx

11.)

"Networking support in embedded Linux simply is not as comprehensive and feature-rich as that in Windows."

http://members.microsoft.com/partner/products/windows/WindowsCE/CEWhyWindowsCENETNotEmbLinux.aspx

12.)

"Modern Unix is a catastrophe. It's the "Un-Operating System": unreliable, unintuitive, unforgiving, unhelpful, and underpowered. Little is more frustrating than trying to force Unix to do something useful and nontrivial. Modern Unix impedes progress in computer science, wastes billions of dollars, and destroys the common sense of many who seriously use it."

http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/preface.html

13.)

"Computer science would have progressed much further and faster if all of the time and effort that has been spent maintaining and nurturing Unix had been spent on a sounder operating system."

http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/preface.html

[SAJChurchey]

Damn the propaganda and the stupid computer illiterate consumers that buy into that shit.

[avello500]

i wonder if they could be sued for false advertising?

[mc0282]

holy shit!!  what a BIG fucking lie .. i wish someone in the media world,  would go on tv and put a windows and linux for a test , i mean real test so alot people could see it how fucking bad is window . just like the ads come on tv about  smoking is bad  from those people called TheTruth.
 

one thing i didn't notice MICRODICK didn't had the balls to say was "LINUX IS VERY STABLE AND DOESN'T HAVE IS OWN LIBARY COMPUTER HOLES LIKE WINDOWS"

[ March 17, 2003: Message edited by: mc0282 ]

[cahult]

Well, boys and girls, have you thought of the name Microsoft? That is one helluva lie in itself. It

[Pissed_Macman]

Macrohard?

[untz]

I can't believe Yoda has gone to the dark side!!

[reflux]

Unix does not impeed on the progression of computer science.  It is only natural that it help flower the progression.  Windows impeeds the flow by over-relying on user friendliness,  development that is too centered on mere ease of use will almost always result in a lack of power.  Not to mention the over all blanket of ignorence set upon the masses by microsoft's elaborate propaganda and flat-line progression.  It is due to microsoft's user friendly stratagy that many users haven't got off their ass and learned a damn thing for 5+ years.

[Calum]

actually unix does impede computer progress. in fact SCO, the current owners of unix are even now preparing to sue IBM for marketing linux!

what is actually true is that Open Source Free (as in freedom) software does not impede development like microsoft (and many others) do.

the Free software foundation was set up as a reaction to Unix's restrictive non-disclosure licences.

[Maniaman]

quote:
6.)

"One cannot delete the Web browser from KDE without losing the ability to manage files on the user's own hard disk."

1)You can still access/manage files via command line
2)I can't delete the web browser from my windows machine period.

Stupid fucks...

[mushrooomprince]

I wonder if who ever wrote that knew that they were shitting a huge lie or if they were just to damb stupid to know any better.

Who trusts microsoft's servers for anything serious ?


Relatively smart companies like Mitsubishi and Sony sure dont. And Cox down here in my area is using Solaris 8.

Microsoft wasn't even smart enough to know the century was going to end.


And by the way .... the last time i checked all macs ever built were programmed to calculate the date up to the year 32000

[GamerX]

quote:actually unix does impede computer progress. in fact SCO, the current owners of unix are even now preparing to sue IBM for marketing linux!

And they'll lose. IBM is a huge company and Linux isn't trademarked or copyrighted to anyone.

[theangelofdeath69]

Actually, mc802 (I think, I can't remember,) when Bill Gates first showed Windows 98 at a press conference, he was saying "And see, because of new PLUG AND PLAY technology, Windows says oh, look, a printer, and then installs WOAH!!!"

To which the camera zooms on a massive "Fatal Exception 0E" on a huge projector screen in front of a few thousand journalists