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Posted by michael on Thursday October 28, 2004 @10:17AM from the starting-to-sweat dept.

Phoe6 writes "Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has used the software giant's latest executive email to stoke up Microsoft's fight against the rise of Linux. The 2,600 word missive was titled 'Customer focus: comparing Windows with Linux and UNIX'. In it, Ballmer repeated the key themes of Microsoft's controversial Get The Facts campaign. Zdnet has its report here." Linuxworld also has a story.

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Get the Facts Ballmer: (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @10:23AM (#10653139)

We're tired of hearing your useless FUD.

1. Price of Windows $299
2. Price of Linux $0 to whatever distributor you wish to pay
3. Having the Freedom to use the software you want to how you want to and being a part of a world wide Free(dom) software community: Priceless!

w0uhf

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From Linux to Windows (Score:5, Funny)

by Enigma_Man ( 756516 ) writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @10:23AM (#10653141) Homepage

I don't. It'd be much more expensive IMO to convert from Linux to Windows. First off, you gotta buy it. Second off, you'd have to hire all new IT staff, because the previous guys would've committed hari-kari in the bathroom. Second, you'd have to figure out how to get all of your applications running again in an environment that is as stable as a drunkard on a fence.

-Jesse

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Re:read the words (Score:5, Funny)

by Sensible Clod ( 771142 ) writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @10:23AM (#10653153) Homepage

Who here also thinks it'd be just as expensive to convert from Linux to Windows?

(Entire planet moves a fraction of an inch further away from the sun as millions of /.ers' hands shoot up, then returns as they come back down.)

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2600 words? (Score:5, Funny)

by klocwerk ( 48514 ) writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @10:24AM (#10653165) Homepage

how ironic.
^_^

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Re:Best part of the article (Score:5, Funny)

by julesh ( 229690 ) writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @10:25AM (#10653175)

Security
About three years ago, we made software security a top priority

s/three years ago/ten years too late/

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Executive Summary (Score:3, Funny)

by Catiline ( 186878 ) writes: <akrumbach@gmail.com> on Thursday October 28, 2004 @10:27AM (#10653199) Homepage Journal

Developers, devel... erk, Security, Security, Security!

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Re:Windows TCO (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @10:29AM (#10653236)

my SysVol is marked as tombstoned

If your lucky maybe some of that BSD code in windows will save you, since BSD is always dying but never really dies.

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2600? (Score:0, Funny)

by hipbase ( 610975 ) writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @10:30AM (#10653256)

Ironic?
I THINK NOT!

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Re:Read between the lines. (Score:5, Funny)

by ZorbaTHut ( 126196 ) writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @10:32AM (#10653277) Homepage

As a completely unrelated aside, my mp3 player chose this moment to start playing "Everything You Know Is Wrong" by Chumbawamba, which has, as part of the bridge, the title and some guy saying "Misinformation!" in the background. I find this highly appropriate.

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Fourth... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @10:37AM (#10653324)

you gotta learn how to count

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Re:From Linux to Windows (Score:5, Funny)

by pjt33 ( 739471 ) writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @10:37AM (#10653327)

Judging by the way you count, I think you're speaking from experience...

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Re:read the words (Score:2, Funny)

by pete-classic ( 75983 ) writes: <hutnick@gmail.com> on Thursday October 28, 2004 @10:38AM (#10653341) Homepage Journal

Aww, comeon. LeChuck's just misunderstood. You try walking around with your beard on fire and see if you don't get a little grumpy.

-Peter

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Re:From Linux to Windows (Score:2, Funny)

by lpp ( 115405 ) writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @10:38AM (#10653344) Homepage Journal

because the previous guys would've committed hari-kari in the bathroom

Ooooooohhh.

Is that what they're calling it now?

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Consider the source (Score:5, Funny)

by HangingChad ( 677530 ) writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @10:44AM (#10653415) Homepage

Getting Linux TCO news from Ballmer is about as reliable as getting news about Iraq from Dick Cheney.

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Business plan (Score:5, Funny)

by say ( 191220 ) writes: <sigve@wo l f r aidah.no> on Thursday October 28, 2004 @10:55AM (#10653545) Homepage
1. Make shitty product
2. Claim it's better
3. When noone agrees any longer: claim it's cheaper because changing is expensive
4. Profit!
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In Other News (Score:3, Funny)

by R.Caley ( 126968 ) writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @11:04AM (#10653643)

Pope takes a shit in the woods.

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Re:From Linux to Windows (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @11:12AM (#10653749)

And third, or forth for those counting, you'd have to hire a team of attendants to clean that bathroom so you don't scare off prospective employees.

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Re:Ballmer wants to hear from you (Score:4, Funny)

by R.Caley ( 126968 ) writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @11:14AM (#10653771)

I can't wait to read the the response to his invitation.
Since no one sane replies to a MAKE MONEY FAST email, which is what his message is, the only entertainment to be gained from the replies will be of the rather sick kind people get from watching cripples fall dosn stairs.
Mind you, I'm pretty sick myself when it comes to humour...

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The trouble is that people belive this cr*p (Score:3, Funny)

by Alain Williams ( 2972 ) writes: <addw@phcomp.co.uk> on Thursday October 28, 2004 @11:19AM (#10653839) Homepage
- The survey, by META Group, found that in one large telecommunications company, consolidation on Windows allowed a greater than 50 percent reduction in the number of required servers.
Presumably they replaced old servers with new ones, so, say, 4 old i386s with 2 new Athlons ? Hardly surprising it is ?
Any one got any old pics of Ballmer, I'd like to see how much his nose has grown by this last year.
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Re:2600 words? (Score:4, Funny)

by Ford Prefect ( 8777 ) writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @11:46AM (#10654225) Homepage

2600 is such a beautiful number... Balmer could have made a more direct point with just 42 tho.

Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers?

Something along those lines [ntk.net], anyhow. ;-)

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schweeeeet! (Score:3, Funny)

by Thud457 ( 234763 ) writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @12:11PM (#10654603) Homepage Journal

Rich is nice, but the part I'm really looking forward to in not being held accountable for my fuck-ups!

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Re:Those clever journalists... (Score:3, Funny)

by jpmkm ( 160526 ) writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @12:37PM (#10654943) Homepage

Whereas the frequency of Linux viruses on Windows is much higher?

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Re:From Linux to Windows (Score:4, Funny)

by gadget junkie ( 618542 ) writes: <gbponz@libero.it> on Thursday October 28, 2004 @03:09PM (#10656490) Journal

" Wasn't it a Windows lockup that took out Los Angeles air traffic control system last month? I think the procedure tells them to reboot once a month and they just forgot."

Yes. suddenly all the windshields of flying aircrafts turned blue ;-)

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Re:Owooooooo!!!! (Score:3, Funny)

by dmaxwell ( 43234 ) writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @03:11PM (#10656507)

I think Steve Ballmer's a giant douche ...

Naaaah. He's a turd sandwich.

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Re:read the words (Score:3, Funny)

by Stepping Razor ( 756775 ) writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @04:24PM (#10657244)

If all the septics* raised there hands towards the sun wouldn't that push the earth away from it for a moment?

(septic tank = yank, a charming bit of rhyming slang)

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Re:Grow up (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @05:06PM (#10657681)

Cookie, the reason 95% of computers run windows is because billy bathgates is a gangster.

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Only Mr. T could pity the fools that buy into this (Score:3, Funny)

by Devi0s ( 759123 ) writes: on Thursday October 28, 2004 @05:25PM (#10657857) Journal

Ballmer - And as Yankee Group noted in its Linux, UNIX and Windows TCO Comparison study, "Linux-specific worms and viruses are every bit as pernicious as their UNIX and Windows counterparts - and in many cases they are much more stealthy."

Spin, Spin, Spin! Just more proof that you can take anything out of context... or just outright lie.

Almost all of the annoying spyware/adware software out there will only infect a Microsoft platform. You've immediately just reduced your maintenance headaches in typical organizations by over 50%.

Let's look at some information actually based on analysis of CERT data...

Windows v Linux security: the real facts
http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_rep ort_windows_vs_linux/ [theregister.co.uk]

If you prefer, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/22/security_r eport_windows_vs_linux.pdf [theregister.co.uk]

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Re:From Linux to Windows (Score:3, Funny)

by 4of12 ( 97621 ) writes: on Friday October 29, 2004 @04:37PM (#10667172) Homepage Journal

DCHP server decided to stop giving out addresses

Seinfeld...Soup Nazi episode...

"No IP address for you!"

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Get the Facts Ballmer: (Score:2, Funny)

From Linux to Windows (Score:5, Funny)

Re:read the words (Score:5, Funny)

2600 words? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Best part of the article (Score:5, Funny)

Executive Summary (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Windows TCO (Score:1, Funny)

2600? (Score:0, Funny)

Re:Read between the lines. (Score:5, Funny)

Fourth... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:From Linux to Windows (Score:5, Funny)

Re:read the words (Score:2, Funny)

Re:From Linux to Windows (Score:2, Funny)

Consider the source (Score:5, Funny)

Business plan (Score:5, Funny)

In Other News (Score:3, Funny)

Re:From Linux to Windows (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Ballmer wants to hear from you (Score:4, Funny)

The trouble is that people belive this cr*p (Score:3, Funny)

Re:2600 words? (Score:4, Funny)

schweeeeet! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Those clever journalists... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:From Linux to Windows (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Owooooooo!!!! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:read the words (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Grow up (Score:1, Funny)

Only Mr. T could pity the fools that buy into this (Score:3, Funny)

Re:From Linux to Windows (Score:3, Funny)

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