__/ [ amicus_curious ] on Thursday 28 December 2006 20:39 \__
>
> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:20845373.eOU1BzzRrg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> The content is as old as a whole decade, but it helps in demonstarting
>> that
>> Microsoft's negative image is well earned.
>>
> That is a tale often told in this forum, I have observed, but out in the
> rest of the world one obtains results such as:
>
> http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/globalmostadmired/top50/
>
> that show that Microsoft's image is far from tarnished. The constant
> denial of the anti-Microsoft groups is reminiscent of the ravings of Iraqi
> Information Minister
> Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf during OIF.
A tale, eh? Coming from you, a Microsoft paid shill (just searching the Web
with your name reveals this), this means nothing. Want proof? THERE. In your
face!
Microsoft 'killed Dell Linux' - States
,----[ Quote ]
| The States' remedy hearing opened in DC yesterday, and States attorney
| Steven Kuney produced a devastating memo from Kempin, then in charge of
| Microsoft's OEM business, written after Judge Jackson had ordered his
| break-up of the company. Kempin raises the possibility of threatening
| Dell and other PC builders which promote Linux.
|
| "I'm thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with anti-Linux.
| ... they should do a delicate dance," Kempin wrote to Ballmer, in what is
| sure to be a memorable addition to the phrases ("knife the baby", "cut off
| the air supply") with which Microsoft enriched the English language in the
| first trial. Unlike those two, this is not contested.
|
| [...]
|
| Earlier memos described that it was "untenable" that a key Microsoft
| partner was promoting Linux. Kuney revealed that Dell disbanded its Linux
| business unit in early 2001. Dell quietly pulled Linux from its desktop PCs
| in the summer of 2001, IDG's Ashlee Vance discovered subsequently, six
| months after we heard Michael Dell declare his love of Linux on the desktop
| the previous winter.
|
| Compaq was also mentioned in other memos, with Microsoft taking the line
| that OEMs should "meet demand but not help create demand" for Linux.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/19/microsoft_killed_dell_linux_states/
Snipping out the words that come from Iowa's antitrust will do you no
favours. No payrise either...
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