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Get the facts
Talkback Surely, any vendor who promotes the need to "Get the facts" should appreciate this? Stating a fact - FLOSS is cheaper most of the time - is not the same as showing bias.
[January 31, 2007, 13:39]
Get the facts? You sound awfully like Microsoft to me :)
Talkback See the extensive Groklaw article, including the refutations, at; http://www.groklaw.net/article.php? That Burton Report has been fully discussed and refuted. story=20080116214144572 Regards.
[January 31, 2008, 1:09]
Get the facts about credit card security and PCI compliance
White Papers No matter what size your business is or what industry you work in, if you accept credit cards, you must adhere to the safeguards mandated by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard—referred to as the PCI DSS.
[October 21, 2009, 18:42]
MSDN Webcast: Get the Facts on Reporting in SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200)
White Papers The attendee of this webcast will learn about the built-in reporting capabilities for SharePoint Server 2007. The presenter of this webcast explains what reporting capabilities are not available in SharePoint Server 2007, and it describes how...
[June 9, 2007, 1:00]
"Get the Facts"
Talkback No matter how hard M$ tries to cloak their fear, of a superior OS, it still shows.They hire their own people to run polls and tests, they get some of their own companies to write reviews of TCO's, and anything else to create favorable impressions.
[August 28, 2007, 13:47]
Microsoft kills off anti-Linux campaign
News Microsoft has killed off its controversial "Get the Facts" anti-Linux campaign and replaced it with a new message called "Compare". Get the Facts aimed to convince IT administrators that Windows Server offered a cheaper and more reliable...
[August 24, 2007, 15:11]
Advertising watchdog reprimands Microsoft over 'facts'
News Microsoft recently launched a 'Get the Facts' ad campaign telling consumers Linux isn't cheaper than Windows. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) thinks they should get the facts too -- but it's warned Microsoft to make sure its are straight...
[August 25, 2004, 16:25]
Microsoft campaign to take aim at Linux leaders
News Microsoft is refining its "Get the Facts" Linux attack, taking specific aim at Red Hat, Novell and IBM rather than the broader movement around the open-source operating system. Taylor's methods include funding analyst firm studies, launching a "Get...
[September 16, 2004, 9:10]
Microsoft touts Linux 'facts'
News The campaign, called "Get the Facts", will initially run in US trade publications with a link to a Microsoft site offering analyst reports and customer case studies backing up Redmond's cost claims. The "Get the Facts" Web site carries a banner...
[January 7, 2004, 9:45]
Microsoft moves from 'facts' to interoperability
News Where the first target of the Get the Facts attack was Linux, the interoperability phase also puts IBM in the crosshairs. The software colossus had been contending, through a series of Microsoft-funded studies and "Get the Facts" advertisements...
[February 4, 2004, 7:15]
Ballmer cites 'facts' in Microsoft's battle against Linux
News In it, Ballmer repeated the key themes of Microsoft's Get The Facts campaign. Get The Facts was launched this year as Microsoft's response to the growing interest that companies are showing in open-source software.
[October 27, 2004, 17:20]
Open source community wooed by Microsoft
Talkback MS Anti-Linux FUD campaign => "Get the Facts" They tried FUD with their "Get the Facts". You'd have to be pretty oblivious to the real world, if you can't see that. They only play the open-source card because they know they have no choice.
[June 29, 2006, 23:50]
Row over report praising Windows patching
News The research, entitled The Total Cost of Security Patch Management: A Comparison of Microsoft Windows and Open Source Software, is available free of charge from Microsoft's 'Get The Facts' Web site - which aims to persuade customers that...
[May 20, 2005, 9:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Get the facts. You can, if you wish, track down various rumours concerning his departure: there are 'friends of Ballmer getting the chop' conspiracy theories, there are others concerning secret reorganisations, and there are others that with some...
[June 23, 2006, 18:45]
Linux vendors hit back at Ballmer's email
Talkback Microsofts' 'get the facts' URL needs a redirection to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3600724.stm PERIOD.
[November 3, 2004, 19:03]
The Real Story: HP-UX 11i
White Papers The viewer of this webcast will get the facts on how HP-UX 11i delivers the full range of manageability, availability, security and innovation needed for enterprise environments.
[November 14, 2007, 0:01]
Key Ballmer adviser leaves Microsoft
News Taylor, a 13-year company veteran who led Microsoft's "Get the Facts" anti-Linux crusade for several years, was named in March as a corporate vice president overseeing the marketing push for Windows Live services.
[June 21, 2006, 9:25]
Facts about OOXML
Talkback Useful sites to get the facts about Microsoft OOXML are: http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php? page=20051216153153504 http://consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/
[January 31, 2008, 22:34]
Novell: Linux turns up the heat on Microsoft
Talkback MS yook on Linux with the "Get the facts campaign over a year ago. Novell is just a dying comany taking one more shot at Microsoft with offering reduce software becasue they could nto sell the software that already had.
[September 14, 2004, 22:59]
Renewed Adventures with Vista
Blog Microsoft says "Get the facts. I have loaded a disk from scratch with the "Vista Recovery DVD" that came with my laptop. That presumably got it back to the state it was in when it was new. Toward the end of the "update/reboot" cycle, it installed...
[August 5, 2008, 8:48]
