Microsoft Axes 'Get The Facts' 241
tom66 writes "Seems like a long time coming, as Microsoft today has axed it's Anti-Linux campaign 'Get the Facts', and Microsoft has replaced it with a new campaign, called 'compare'. This article touches up on why they may have done it, and the criticism surrounding Get the Facts."
Funny, the ad right below the story... (Score:3, Funny)
from microsoft: (Score:5, Funny)
The original version: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Out with the old FUD. (Score:5, Funny)
New Focus (Score:5, Funny)
cool support videos (Score:2, Funny)
Windows Powershell (Score:4, Funny)
ps xu | grep konqueror | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -9
Elmer Fud (Score:3, Funny)
Next step.... (Score:2, Funny)
2. Compare
3. Oops!
The REAL facts (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Windows Powershell (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Windows Powershell (Score:3, Funny)
Optimized for former Windows users:
Re:Out with the old FUD. (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, I never thought of it that way. Your convincing argument totally changes my mind about everything. I'm never using Linux again!
Re:New Focus (Score:1, Funny)
Re:The REAL facts (Score:4, Funny)
Yes...because as we all know, Wikipedia is a source of information that is totally neutral, unbiased, and objective, and is not subject to any form of inappropriate manipulation or interference whatsoever.
Their policy says so.
Re:Elmer Fud (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm. It could still work.
Re:it's not advertisement o_O (Score:5, Funny)
You've made a parsing error that's not windows power shell, but Windows Powers Hell, its an advert showing how one of their big clients has seen huge rises in productivity since they shifted the demons from Gentoo to Windows ME
obviously for this particular client increased productivity == increased suffering, but i understand a lot of companies use the same metric...