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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: slave on 16 March 2003, 22:11

Title: 13 lies on the Microsoft website.
Post by: slave on 16 March 2003, 22:11
1.)

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

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/migrate/unix/businessvalue.asp (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/preface.html)
Title: 13 lies on the Microsoft website.
Post by: SAJChurchey on 17 March 2003, 00:06
Damn the propaganda and the stupid computer illiterate consumers that buy into that shit.
Title: 13 lies on the Microsoft website.
Post by: avello500 on 17 March 2003, 00:20
i wonder if they could be sued for false advertising?
Title: 13 lies on the Microsoft website.
Post by: mc0282 on 18 March 2003, 07:23
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 ]

Title: 13 lies on the Microsoft website.
Post by: cahult on 18 March 2003, 21:32
Well, boys and girls, have you thought of the name Microsoft? That is one helluva lie in itself. It
Title: 13 lies on the Microsoft website.
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 18 March 2003, 21:40
Macrohard?
Title: 13 lies on the Microsoft website.
Post by: untz on 19 March 2003, 08:28
I can't believe Yoda has gone to the dark side!!
Title: 13 lies on the Microsoft website.
Post by: reflux on 3 April 2003, 19:42
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.
Title: 13 lies on the Microsoft website.
Post by: Calum on 3 April 2003, 22:41
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.
Title: 13 lies on the Microsoft website.
Post by: Maniaman on 5 April 2003, 23:23
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...
Title: 13 lies on the Microsoft website.
Post by: mushrooomprince on 14 April 2003, 00:30
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
Title: 13 lies on the Microsoft website.
Post by: GamerX on 22 April 2003, 19:47
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.
Title: 13 lies on the Microsoft website.
Post by: theangelofdeath69 on 28 April 2003, 13:13
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