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Story: War of words greets Microsoft's UK anti-Linux campaign

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Microsoft are lying.

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. The following appeared in a recent BusinessWeek article:

Yet even this tactic seems to be backfiring. One of the study's authors accuses Microsoft of stacking the deck. IDC analyst Dan Kusnetzky says the company selected scenarios that would inevitably be more costly using Linux. Also, he believes Windows should be cheaper to operate, since it has been around longer, giving Microsoft more time to develop software to manage the operating system. "Microsoft has had a lot more time to work on this. I wonder why the win wasn't bigger," Kusnetzky says.

(Source: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_09/b3822610_tc102.htm)

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