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

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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? regardless of whether it is done by a supposably "independant" body.

If the body carrying out the research is paid by one of the companies being researched then in what way can it be called independant research?

Looking at the "research" it seems to be very specific to criteria which would benefit Microsoft (i.e. having untrained admins doing a job which obviously should be done by a properly trained professional regardless of the OS) and not comparing like with like at all.

This really needs to be reported to the Advertising Standards Authority because it is conveying very false information which many non IT-competent managers are going to take as fact.

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