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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]
TechNet Webcast: Windows Mobile Series: Get the Facts on Comparing Windows Mobile and Blackberry (Level 300)
White Papers This "Get the Facts" webcast can help to decide which solution makes sense for the organization. The speaker of this webcast explains a feature- and scenario-level discussion of two different mobile communications solutions: one using Windows...
[May 30, 2008, 1:01]
"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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Microsoft: Linux debate needs to be 'more rational'
Talkback To hear Microsoft saying the Linux debate needs to be 'more rational' after it's factually challenged 'get the facts' campaign just beggars belief!
[July 1, 2004, 11:22]
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]
re Eyes Open
Talkback I think the ZDNet.co.uk seem to try harder than most to get the facts across. Tech reporting isn't that hard.especially in these days of the interweb thingy. What is hard is extracting any company generated spin on news that gets spewed out from...
[December 22, 2006, 13:14]
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]
My mobile radiation health fear: apoplexy
Blog Let´s get the facts out of the way first. In the meantime, Wi-Guard means you can eliminate the possible risks from these biological effects and make your life safer - the same way a seat-belt makes you safer in the car.
[February 13, 2008, 13:03]
Twenty years of free software: What now?
Talkback I happen to disagree with his insistance that this is a moral issue, but please let's at least get the facts right. Read Stallman's definition of 'free software' at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.
[January 9, 2004, 9:53]
GoToMyPC Corporate Security White Paper: Discover the Secret to Secure Remote Access
White Papers Download this Security White Paper to get the facts you need to ensure that your organization's critical systems and data are safeguarded when deploying remote access. Safeguarding information and systems should be an organization's highest...
[January 13, 2009, 12:13]
Linux vendors hit back at Ballmer's email
News In a 2,600-word email sent to Microsoft customers and partners on Wednesday, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer drove home the key themes of Microsoft's "Get The Facts" campaign. Based on two studies on Microsoft's "Get The Facts" website entitled "Windows...
[October 28, 2004, 15:54]
