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Anti-Linux Propaganda du Jour: Windows Owns 96% Of Netbooks
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| The anti-Linux propaganda du jour, being dutifully parroted by "news"
| publications everywhere, is that Windows now owns 96% of the netbook market,
| and that Linux netbooks are returned four times more than windows netbooks.
| Both are untrue and have been debunked repeatedly. Yet they persist-- why?
|
| I think Microsoft is growing increasingly desperate, and in hard economic
| times is finding equally desperate publications who will say anything for a
| few bucks. Which may be a harsh judgment, but I would rather believe that
| than believe they simply don't care to do even the simplest, most basic
| fact-checking, or are such hard-core Microsoft fanboys that they are only
| pretending to be journalists when they are really stringers for Microsoft's
| marketing department. How else can we explain the same nonsense repeated
| endlessly, their allergies to saying "Windows" and "malware" in the same
| sentence, the short shrift given to non-Windows software, the mind-boggling
| assumption that Windows is computing?
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http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/04/windows-owns-96.html
Having FUD With Facts
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| I don't own a netbook and I don't run Linux on any computers. I do, however,
| follow news about both and try to stay informed. So when I saw this item
| about how Microsoft, in one year, has virtually pushed Linux out of the
| netbook OS market by grabbing a 96 percent share, I was so dumbfounded I
| couldn't write about it. I just couldn't get my head around that fact. It
| didn't make any sense to me, but there it was, according to market research
| firm NPD Group.
|
| [...]
|
| In her blog, Carla goes on to make an impassioned and stirring plea for
| computer users to rise up and break free of Microsoft's market shackles.
| Except now I feel like a tool for running Microsoft on a desktop and two
| laptops. So here is my vow: My next computer will run Linux. I just gotta do
| some homework first.
|
| You opened my eyes, Carla. I owe you one.
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http://blog.datamation.com/blog/2009/04/having-fud-with.html
Recent:
Microsoft hit with €9m fine over German pricing
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| The German competition authority, the BundesKartellamt, has fined Microsoft
| €9m for colluding with retailers to set the price of "Office Home and Student
| 2007".
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/04/08/mmicrosoft_competition_fine/
Related:
Crimes Microsoft Gets Away With - So Far
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| News publications are cautious about making accusations, and because of that,
| some nasty acts of Microsoft are essentially being erased from the record.
|
| [...]
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| Microsoft convinced Baystar Capital to put $50 Million dollars into SCO's
| lawsuit against IBM and other Open Source users, and promised to "backstop"
| Baystar's investment if SCO lost money, according to this sworn testimony.
| But I'm told that one person's testimony, even sworn testimony, isn't proof.
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http://technocrat.net/no-cache/d/2008/7/30/46981
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