Microsoft's Growing PR Crisis
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| Microsoft's strangle hold is going to become less and less important as OS X
| continues to grab the market share. It's got a long ways to go, but something
| tells me that within five years, Microsoft's home-based market share is going
| to take a nose dive. Fool us once (Windows Me), shame on you. Fool us twice
| (Windows Vista), it's time to rethink our OS availability options.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2684&Itemid=449
A Call To Accountability
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| Not only do you have Teachers and Administrators who are protecting Microsoft
| (isn't money wonderful?), you have System Administrators and Network
| Technicians that lock their heels on any movement to change the system to
| FOSS. Between job security, laziness and politics, Microsoft has fairly well
| assured itself a solid and substantial place in the United States educational
| system.
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| [...]
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| It's your money. You've paid dearly for our public school system and you have
| the right to know how many millions the schools are putting into the pockets
| of Bill Gates. Wouldn't that money be better used to educate our kids?
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http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/347-A-Call-To-Accountability.html
Related:
[Microsoft-funded] Survey says: Microsoft ecosystem is biggest
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| The IDC study--which Microsoft has been commissioning in different forms for
| the past five years--also forecasts positive growth for the IT industry and
| workers, with developing countries leading the way.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9799264-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Microsoft admits Swedish employee promised incentives for Open XML support
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| Microsoft Corp. admitted Wednesday that an employee at its Swedish subsidiary
| offered monetary compensation to partners for voting in favor of the Office
| Open XML document format's approval as an ISO standard.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9033701
Microsoft-backed study sees Vista creating U.S. jobs
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| A Microsoft-commissioned study estimates that Windows Vista could
| create 100,000 new IT-related jobs in the United States.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6142111.html
IDC pronounces Linux unimportant to European economy
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| A recent IDC white paper on the economic impact of Microsoft's super
| soaraway new Vista operating system seems to be lacking one crucial
| ingredient -- other operating systems.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34542
A new Microsoft-commissioned anti-Linux study debuts
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| Microsoft seemingly has backed off from trumpeting its "Get the
| Facts" studies, as of late. But that doesn't mean the company has
| ceased commissioning research outfits to perform its anti-Linux dirty
| work.
|
| On September 25, Mercer Management Consulting released a new
| Microsoft-backed study. The study is entitled "Driving Lower TCO and
| Rapid ROI through UNIX Migrations." The synopsis: "Microsoft Windows
| the preferred choice for UNIX migration when IT organizations migrate
| servers as part of a focused effort to improve business processes,
| deploy critical applications or restructure their IT architecture."
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/index.php?p=12
Leaked letter warns of open source 'threat to eco-system'
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| leaked letter to the European Commission has revealed the extent of
| lobbying by proprietary software groups to prevent the widespread
| adoption of open-source software.
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| Sent in response to a recent report on the role of open-source
| software in the European economy, Microsoft-funded pressure
| group, the Initiative for Software Choice (ISC) warned of
| potentially dire effects if too much encouragement was given
| to open source software development.
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http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=7109
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