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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. As much as a long term plan is nice to have, it's also nice the have the flexibility to grow and move...
[January 30, 2004, 20:56]
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. It is proven that Linux is ceaper, faster, more dependable, and more supportive of devices and the growing needs of everyone's corporate infastructure.
[January 30, 2004, 13:13]
War of words greets Microsoft's UK anti-Linux campaign
Talkback 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 We have no comparable outfit in the US, so an unscrupulous advertiser like Micro$haft can repeatedly get away with gross distortions of reality. Aside from the obvious implications of M$'s sponsorship of these studies, an even cursory look at the...
[January 29, 2004, 17:06]
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]
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]
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 As part of its multi-million dollar "Get The Facts" advertising campaign, which was launched in the US earlier this month, Microsoft will direct users to visit a section on its Web site containing reports that were carried out by independent...
[January 29, 2004, 15:15]
War of words rages on at Apple
News Ninjawords is a dictionary application initially rejected from the App Store because it supplied the definition of several dirty words, and Gruber publicised the rejection in a blog on Tuesday. Ninjawords draws on Wiktionary.com for its definitions...
[August 7, 2009, 17:20]
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 Our goal is to dominate the DDR SDRAM market this year," said Hynix's vice president of worldwide memory marketing, Farhad Tabrizi, in a statement. Meanwhile Infineon, controlled by Germany's Siemens, said the falling price of DDR means it could...
[June 11, 2001, 11:18]
Ellison ups ante in war of words
News But unlike its review of PeopleSoft's buyout of J.D. Perhaps they can manufacture a couple of good quarters," he added. Edwards, the regulatory body has asked Oracle for additional information as part of a more extensive inquiry that could take...
[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]
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[September 1, 2009, 8:00]
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Downloads One Crowded Hour A Point of View The Fall of Lord Barrymore The Horror of The Heights Borrowed Scenes The Surgeon of Gaster Fell How It Happened The Prisoner's Defence Three of ThemThe Green Flag And Other Stories of War And Sport: The Green...
[October 9, 2007, 8:00]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback I think let's stop this WAR OF WORDS and admit that no one is perfect in this world. Similarly, not all Americans are technically weak and not all Indians make mistakes as far as the language is concerned.there is even more to this that we can keep...
[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]
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. Oracle failed in its approach to PeopleSoft because of you," he said.
[September 16, 2003, 9:30]
