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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: mobrien_12 on 26 August 2004, 05:51

Title: Advertising Standards Association says MS is full of it.
Post by: mobrien_12 on 26 August 2004, 05:51

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18067 (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18067)

 

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THE UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a series of public complaints over an advert in a magazine comparing the cost of Linux versus Microsoft Windows.

An advert it ran compared the two operating systems to each other, but Windows was running on a measly dual 900MHz Xeon configuration, while Linux was running on a z900 IBM mainframe....the ASA ruled readers would infer the ad compared Linux and Windows OSes only.

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Title: Advertising Standards Association says MS is full of it.
Post by: WMD on 26 August 2004, 07:18

Finally, a word of sanity from advertising regulators.

The z900/Linux would beat the Xeon/Windows, IF the mainframe had more than one image running on it (which is the point of buying one).  Just figured I'd say that.

Title: Advertising Standards Association says MS is full of it.
Post by: sime on 26 August 2004, 16:45

And there is more slapping here ...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/26/microsoft_advertising/ (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/26/microsoft_advertising/)

Looks like the big lie technique is not going to work Bill!

Sime