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Ballmer cites 'facts' in Microsoft's battle against Linux
Talkback Microsoft is simply doing what it does best: marketing by means of FUD, third-party trashing and lock-in. Quote: "And it seems to me that it would be very easy for customers to look at those two stats and conclude that Microsoft is not only causing...
[October 27, 2004, 23:54]
Pro-Linux group snaps up Microsoft patents
News A pro-open-source group said on Tuesday that it has acquired 22 patents recently sold by Microsoft — patents that the group said could have been used against Linux. In an interview, Bergelt said his organisation was not invited by Microsoft to...
[September 9, 2009, 8:29]
Microsoft warns governments of Linux lawsuit threat
Talkback we ain't worry.my penguins and cows are here to protect me from evil butterflys.linux is coming for you! are your windows dirty?
[November 30, 2004, 15:13]
Ballmer cites 'facts' in Microsoft's battle against Linux
Talkback Manufacturer's and its suppliers' entire liability under any provision of this agreement shall be limited to the amount actually paid by you for the SOFTWARE and/or Microsoft hardware. Indemnification?
[October 28, 2004, 17:11]
Telstra 'played Linux card' to lower Microsoft bills
Talkback Microsoft are doing well. They've just got to hang on to that monopoly until their Palladium or NGSOB or whatever they call it these days comes in and actually removes what little choice remains and forces us to use Windows to do anything.
[August 3, 2004, 12:00]
Sun takes on Microsoft and IBM with Linux servers
News Zander was keen to present this as a strategy against Microsoft, and play down any possible conflicts between Linux and Solaris. Sun Microsystems plans to sell general-purpose Linux servers based on x86 hardware, a dramatic departure for the...
[February 7, 2002, 17:34]
Telstra 'played Linux card' to lower Microsoft bills
Talkback In other words, those huge Microsoft discounts are more then likely to be "small temporary setbacks" for them. Life cycly cost are often overlooked by those decision makers who "have moved on" by the time newer (or more, or less) product versions...
[August 8, 2004, 22:12]
War of words greets Microsoft's UK anti-Linux campaign
Talkback On a more personal note, I have been trying out Linux and will be making every effort to move over entirely. However, authoritative people/organisations in the Linux community must now concentrate on making Linux much more user friendly including...
[January 30, 2004, 15:51]
War of words greets Microsoft's UK anti-Linux campaign
Talkback The author of the report that Microsoft mentions, Dan Kusnetzky, has made it clear that this report that Microsoft commissioned (and paid for) was designed to show Linux in a less than favourable light.
[January 30, 2004, 8:11]
War of words greets Microsoft's UK anti-Linux campaign
Talkback All the "research" done was sponored by Microsoft, ofcourse its going to say Microsoft is cheaper, have you ever heard of sponored research not coming out in favor of the sponsor? Looking at the "research" it seems to be very specific to criteria...
[January 29, 2004, 16:22]
Microsoft warns governments of Linux lawsuit threat
Talkback We're back in the Netscape days. MS sees competition so it's fighting dirty to get rid of it.
[November 19, 2004, 12:32]
War of words greets Microsoft's UK anti-Linux campaign
Talkback Comparing the RAW TCO for Win on ONE INTEL BOX versus only ONE IMAGE of Linux running on TWO MAINFRAMES is obscene. Beyond the obvious issues of TCO vs.superior availability, or that THOUSANDS of Linux images can be run on a mainframe, it's...
[January 29, 2004, 17:06]
Microsoft takes swipe at Linux vendors' legal story
Talkback "Struan Robertson, a lawyer with law firm Masons, agreed it is unlikely for the end user to be sued, but is possible -- as was seen when SCO Group sued DaimlerChrysler and AutoZone for using Linux.a high school student could do enought research...
[November 8, 2004, 12:55]
Microsoft takes swipe at Linux vendors' legal story
Talkback Struan Robertson, a lawyer with law firm Masons, agreed it is unlikely for the end user to be sued, but is possible -- as was seen when SCO Group sued DaimlerChrysler and AutoZone for using Linux. Struan Robertson, a lawyer with law firm Masons...
[November 8, 2004, 15:02]
Microsoft takes swipe at Linux vendors' legal story
Talkback Timeline inc.can legally sue all MSFT MS SQL develoers. Why Because MSFT doesn't indemifiy it's customers. They may not of sued any yet, but they can. How can MSFT allow this, because they don't care about their customers or developers, and didn't...
[November 8, 2004, 20:15]
Microsoft warns governments of Linux lawsuit threat
Talkback What a shabby and pathetic way to conduct business. If companies have to resort to scaremongering tactics to persuade customers to use their products rather than letting their quality and pricing speak for themselves, there is obviously something...
[November 18, 2004, 15:27]
Microsoft warns governments of Linux lawsuit threat
Talkback Ballmer; what are the USPTO numbers of these 228 patents ? Ballmer is not lying, I think he actually believes what he says but as we have found with our own UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and his "45 minute launch of WMD" claims on Iraq, no matter...
[November 18, 2004, 16:22]
Microsoft warns governments of Linux lawsuit threat
Talkback "We think our software is far more secure than open-source software. It is more secure because we stand behind it, we fixed it, because we built it. Nobody ever knows who built open-source software," Scandalous!
[November 20, 2004, 9:11]
Microsoft on warding off the Linux threat
Talkback First they said Linux and open source was a cancer and that no one was adopting it, then they change their strategy and start trying to be more like open source. Now he's going to sit here and insist that Linux and open source are not making huge...
[October 5, 2006, 14:17]
