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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RE: Comment by antilock_brakes
by coreyography on Thu 10th Sep 2009 00:11
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...right now Windows 7 is the superior option for an *AVERAGE* retail customer, simply because it is a Microsoft product and when the computer shits itself (and they all do at one point or another) there are innumerable more support channels that the customer will be able to pursue.
Yeah, me and others like me: computer-savvy friends, relatives, and coworkers. I'm going to end up with a copy of Windows 7 to help me help my family and friends with their new, incontinent machines.
Fortunately they all heard about Vista on their own, and stayed away, so I didn't have to deal with that much :-D.
Edited 2009-09-10 00:14 UTC
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I apologize if I repeat anything that's been said, first off.
This training is not available to just Best Buy employees. I work for another employer that sells electronics, and the site is readily available to any retail employee provided you give them your place of work. Hell, you only need a Windows Live or Hotmail ID to log in.
You take quite a few little training courses, not just one covering Linux, obviously with a heavy Microsoft bias, and at the end *while supplies last* you are offered a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate at ten bucks.
Yes, that particular course is heavy anti-Linux, but in terms of what retail employees encounter on a daily basis it is somewhat true.
Aside from you all-knowing wonders who decide to grace us with your presence, many people who come in to look at computers (especially in higher traffic retail channels) only have a slight grasp on how they actually work, and that slight grasp is based on using a Microsoft product. Every now and again a more advanced user will come in to shop, but that's a bit of a rarity. While the audience on here will certainly give exceptions about a friend/significant other/etc. taking to a Linux distribution like a fish to water, most customers look at me completely dumbstruck when I say "Linux".
I know I'm pissing into the wind here, especially considering the tone of the article and the comments posted, but right now Windows 7 is the superior option for an *AVERAGE* retail customer, simply because it is a Microsoft product and when the computer shits itself (and they all do at one point or another) there are innumerable more support channels that the customer will be able to pursue.