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13:19 - WE HAV3 TEH WAY OUT!!!!!1111`
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28408.html
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Is there no end to the shameless Microsoft FUD?
First they put up a site exhorting people to move from UNIX servers to Windows-- a site that ran on FreeBSD until someone caught them. Then they conjure a fake anti-Mac "Switch" campaign out of public-domain clip-art and in-house consultants, which is also immediately debunked. Then an internal document is leaked which reveals that even Microsoft can't justify running its own Hotmail service on Windows servers, in the back-end where performance and stability really count.
Heaven forfend they should break this winning streak. After all, whether based on lies or not, it's working, right?
So now they've posted a totally impartial study which finds that (gasp!) Windows servers are cheaper to run than Linux.
Windows 2000 servers are cheaper to run than Linux ones, sometimes, says an IDC study which was by strange coincidence sponsored by Microsoft. The study will come as welcome relief to Microsoft salespeople who have been parroting the 'cheaper than Linux' line to general disbelief, but whether anyone else will believe it is another matter.
Particularly since the study is quite obviously stacked in ways that would make a Linux machine incur costs that it never would be subject to in the real world, and it still can't manage to come up with a resounding Saddam-esque unanimous recommendation of Windows. A Microsoft-funded study still finds that Linux is a better and more economical server platform in most circumstances.
Why does anybody believe a word Microsoft says, after this track record of illegal abuse of power, shoddy and incompetent workmanship, and outright lies to the consumer and enterprise public in order to support its business case?
What's it going to take-- an Enron-esque financial scandal?
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