Microsoft Sales Tactics Breed Mistrust
A conversation between two IT management types displayed a definite mistrust of Microsoft's sales reps during a re-licensing negotiation. Yet we're supposed to trust a cmpany with a long history of...
View ArticleODF vs. OOXML: Microsoft Has Mastered the Art of Unfair Play
There is no doubt that the stakes in the Open Document Format (ODF) vs. Open XML standardization process are high. Microsoft and IBM have each invested huge sums of money in their version of what the...
View ArticleHow Microsoft Blogging PR Works
Microsoft's handling of the Windows Update controversy is a good case study for how the company's public relations efforts work. The lessons are important for Microsoft customers and partners.
View ArticleHoist with their own FUD: an old marketing tactic is backfiring
Established IT vendors have long relied on "fear, uncertainty, and doubt" to scare their customers away from the upstarts. But customers are getting tired of it, and a new generation of vendors is...
View ArticleWhy is Microsoft underpowering One Laptop Per Child?
Boingboing is reporting that Microsoft is forcing OEMs into using artificially low hardware specifications. Even if you erroneously believe that OLPC is simply a matter of price tag, Microsoft's...
View ArticleDid Microsoft Scheme Financial Strangulations Against OLPC?
Antitrust exhibits show how Microsoft was treating -- internally -- the OLPC threat (with GNU/Linux)
View ArticleMicrosoft Fights to Make GNU/Linux a Fringe Phenomenon
How Microsoft is trying to marginalise GNU/Linux and the extent to which demoralising lies are used as a tool
View ArticleConfirmed: Novell Puts Mono (and Moonlight) at Centre of the GNU/Linux Desktop
YESTERDAY we wrote about Moonlight and Mono-based applications getting more tightly integrated. We now see it confirmed by Novell employees Miguel de Icaza and Jonathan Pobst [1 2], so our suspicions...
View ArticleMicrosoft Teaches the Public That Free is Illegal
Shameless tactics from Microsoft describe Free software as "piracy" and now an "endemic problem"
View ArticleNew Anti-Linux Propaganda from Microsoft
Screenshots obviously conditioning PC sales personnel to lie about Linux have been discovered in a US forum hosting Windows 7 training modules.
View ArticleWhat Microsoft Doesn't Get - And What I Hope You Do
You know what Microsoft doesn't get? -- For one thing, the Internet. Microsoft doesn't control it. What it used to be able to do in the dark now falls out of its noxious bag of tricks into the...
View ArticleMS Has Lobbyists & Cronies Around EU Commission, Working to Shatter MySQL &...
Courtois infiltrates another area where there is a potentially-forbidden conflict of interests and Microsoft deceives the EU Commission
View ArticleOpen Irony: Microsoft Creates/Sponsors OpenMainframe.org to Attack GNU/Linux
War is peace and Microsoft is the new "open". Details on the latest attack of Microsoft against GNU/Linux, using proxies
View ArticleRichard Stallman Explains Why Microsoft is ‘Infiltrating’ Free/Open Source...
The freedom of the software we all sometimes use is under attack, in part thanks to companies like ACCESS and Microsoft, which found a partner in Tim O’Reilly and others who take money to change the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Sales Tactics Breed Mistrust
A conversation between two IT management types displayed a definite mistrust of Microsoft's sales reps during a re-licensing negotiation. Yet we're supposed to trust a cmpany with a long history of...
View ArticleODF vs. OOXML: Microsoft Has Mastered the Art of Unfair Play
There is no doubt that the stakes in the Open Document Format (ODF) vs. Open XML standardization process are high. Microsoft and IBM have each invested huge sums of money in their version of what the...
View ArticleHow Microsoft Blogging PR Works
Microsoft's handling of the Windows Update controversy is a good case study for how the company's public relations efforts work. The lessons are important for Microsoft customers and partners.
View ArticleHoist with their own FUD: an old marketing tactic is backfiring
Established IT vendors have long relied on "fear, uncertainty, and doubt" to scare their customers away from the upstarts. But customers are getting tired of it, and a new generation of vendors is...
View ArticleWhy is Microsoft underpowering One Laptop Per Child?
Boingboing is reporting that Microsoft is forcing OEMs into using artificially low hardware specifications. Even if you erroneously believe that OLPC is simply a matter of price tag, Microsoft's...
View ArticleDid Microsoft Scheme Financial Strangulations Against OLPC?
Antitrust exhibits show how Microsoft was treating -- internally -- the OLPC threat (with GNU/Linux)
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