Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Tue 8th Sep 2009 21:21 UTC, submitted by wakeupneo
According to a leak from a BestBuy employee, Microsoft is initiating a sort of "Anti-Linux Training" course for the employees, and those who take part in the said training are rewarded with a copy of Windows 7 for only ten dollars. The leaked screenshots of the campaign show Microsoft's comparison of its own system with an obscure "Linux" and how Windows is better in every way including security, "free downloads", and software and hardware compatibility.
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It doesn't mean that Linux isn't capable of great things.
It simply means that you have to jump through a lot of hoops
to do things that are inherent in Mac/Windows and, since most
consumers lack the experience/knowledge to do that, Microsoft
should definitely point that out in their marketing materials.
I would. Why not?
The problem with this presentation is that the truthful points
are mostly artificial. No support for MS produced software.
Well, duh. What should we expect from a company who at one
time compared Linux to cancer and an Intellectual Rights
destroying Pacman?
The iPod thing is mostly true, but who cares about iPod with a
zillion more versatile and open options out there? If you buy
iPod, you should buy a Mac too. A closed music player from a
closed company peddling closed consumer wares.
The most irking stuff are the blatant lies about security and
updating. How dare a company, whose "security features"
allowed such beauties as "I love you", Code Red, Slammer,
Nimda and Conficker, badmouth a competitor who to my knowledge
never had a global infection event!
When it comes to updating. What is easier?
Windows:
Go to Windows update (all MS software does update and install
automatically!), go to the antivirus manufacturer site, go to the burning software manufacturer site, go to the video editor
manufacturer site, go to the photo editor manufacturer site,
go to whatever software manufacturer site and download all
updates seperately. Install them seperately.
Mainstream Linux Distribution:
See the updatemanager screen pop-up. Inspect the available
updates for both the OS and the applications and click apply.
After authenticating with your password, all updates are
downloaded and installed automatically. Done.
This latest presentation is just one of the many things that
prove that MS preys on the gullible. The people who still
think of computers as black magic. The people who want to
write an occasional letter and surf the net. Who go to a store
and are sold a quad core, 4 GB RAM, gaming rig, but who
would have been served better with a decent nettop.
The real sad part of this, is that Windows 7 doesn't need this kind of "support". 7 is very nice. A worthy successor to Windows XP SP2. Instead of really touting what 7 can do, MS decides to spout cheap FUD.
That is my problem with MS in general. It's not the technology, but the practises that make me forego MS as a possible main software supplier.