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War Of Words Greets Microsoft's UK Anti-Linux Campaign
Talkback Even given that Microsoft's claims that Windows is cheaper in the long term have some truth, I'd still be concerned with the implications of this. Essentially, what this means is that if you want to see these supposed statements, you're going to...
[January 30, 2004, 20:56]
War Of Words Greets Microsoft's UK Anti-Linux Campaign
Talkback Complain to the Advertising Standards Authority about this, UK! We have no comparable outfit in the US, so an unscrupulous advertiser like Micro$haft can repeatedly get away with gross distortions of reality.
[January 29, 2004, 17:06]
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? regardless of whether it is done by a supposably "independant" body.
[January 29, 2004, 16:22]
War Of Words Greets Microsoft's UK Anti-Linux Campaign
Talkback 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.
[January 30, 2004, 8:11]
War Of Words Greets Microsoft's UK Anti-Linux Campaign
Talkback Microsoft is afraid of Linux because they lost money on X-Box and MSN. Their server licenses will never go down in price, and their stability will never get better. Most people would pay an equal amount for Linux just because it's more dependable...
[January 30, 2004, 13:13]
War Of Words Greets Microsoft's UK Anti-Linux Campaign
Talkback I agree, complain to the Advertising Standards Authority. They are supposed to act, even on a single compaint. Flood them with complaints. On a more personal note, I have been trying out Linux and will be making every effort to move over entirely.
[January 30, 2004, 15:51]
Anti-spam War Of Words Heats Up
News AOL put up new welcome screens for its US members on Thursday that links to a letter outlining its legal and technological war on spam, as well as tips on how to handle it. We're making a renewed vigorous effort to crack down on spam, and it's a...
[February 21, 2003, 10:15]
War Of Words Greets Microsoft's UK Anti-Linux Campaign
News Microsoft will launch a marketing campaign against Linux in the UK on Monday, aiming to convince companies thinking about moving to the open-source operating system that Windows is a cheaper option in the long run; but Linux vendors say Microsoft...
[January 29, 2004, 15:15]
HP And Sun Intensify War Of Words
News Hewlett-Packard has formally demanded that Sun Microsystems and its president, Jonathan Schwartz, stop publishing what it calls "misleading and factually incorrect statements" about HP's commitment to its version of Unix -- but Sun is standing firm.
[October 5, 2004, 9:20]
Memory Standards Wage War Of Words
News The Computex computer show in Taiwan last week became a battleground between two competing formats for next-generation memory, one supported by semiconductor giant Intel, the other a less-expensive open standard.
[June 11, 2001, 11:18]
Ellison Ups Ante In War Of Words
News Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison on Tuesday predicted PeopleSoft would post lacklustre financial results during the next several quarters; a weakness that could sway support for Oracle's hostile takeover.
[July 16, 2003, 10:40]
Chairman Admits BT Is An Endangered Species
News We have lost the war of words and once you have lost a war you have to deal with the peace. In a keynote speech at the Telecommunications Managers Association conference in Brighton Monday, BT chairman Sir Iain Vallance described the telco he heads...
[November 30, 1999, 10:49]
McNealy Makes Pact With His Devil
News To veteran watchers of both companies, the alliance, sealed with a handshake between McNealy and Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer, seems an improbable outcome if you look at their war of words.
[April 5, 2004, 9:20]
Microsoft To Oracle: Cease And Desist
News The recent war of words between Microsoft and Oracle is hardly the first clash between the two in the database space. Trade-show keynote speeches are a sure soapbox for vendors to dis their competitors.
[October 27, 2000, 8:32]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback I think let's stop this WAR OF WORDS and admit that no one is perfect in this world. If Americans lack technical know how, Indians can miss on on the accent as well. Similarly, not all Americans are technically weak and not all Indians make...
[October 12, 2006, 17:36]
Games Maker Not Suing Over Bug Alert
News However, Rein's comments, as reported by TechTV, raised the stakes in what had been a mild war of words between the two companies. Epic Games, maker of the Unreal Tournament series of virtual world shooting games, on Tuesday denied reports that it...
[February 12, 2003, 8:20]
IDG Softens Stance In Macworld Spat
News After a war of words last week, Apple Computer and Macworld Expo show promoter IDG World Expo managed a bit of detente on Monday. The feuding began last week when Apple threw cold water on IDG's plans to move the East Coast version of the twice...
[October 22, 2002, 7:57]
Consortium Launched To Support OpenDocument
News The formation of the Open Document Fellowship also underlines the war of words that has broken out over this issue between Sun and the open source community on one hand and Microsoft on the other. The Open Document Fellowship was launched on Monday...
[October 10, 2005, 17:50]
PeopleSoft Head Exchanges Fire With Ellison
News PeopleSoft chief executive Craig Conway on Monday continued the war of words in his company's battle to fend off a hostile bid from rival Oracle. At PeopleSoft's customer conference, Conway told the audience that his company is "profoundly grateful...
[September 16, 2003, 9:30]
CIOs: Avoid War Between IT's Twentysomethings And More Mature Workers
White Papers Industry pundits recently opened new skirmish lines in a generational war of words within IT, pitting older IT workers with mainframe skills against younger workers with new technology skills. Blogs everywhere are filling, debating whether the old...
[December 20, 2006, 13:28]
