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Swedes Harbor Pirates, But Don't Use Their Warez
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| More people use pirated software in Australia than in Sweden -- home of a
| popular pirate site -- according to a report by research firm IDC.
|
| A separate telephone survey of 1100 Australians conducted last month by
| Galaxy Research and commissioned by Microsoft Australia, found up to 64
| percent would use pirated software for personal use.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft Australia business consumer product manager Steve Johns said users
| are jeopardizing computer security by using pirated software.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/159145/swedes_harbor_pirates_but_dont_use_their_warez.html
More propaganda:
Girl Scouts of the USA and Microsoft Launch Online Safety Campaign
http://sev.prnewswire.com/multimedia-online-internet/20090211/DC6951911022009-1.html
School children get web safety advice
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| The survey, by Microsoft, also suggested that 66% of teens surf the internet
| without any restrictions from their parents.
|
| [...]
|
| Police officers and Microsoft workers have been giving 30-minute
| presentations at the schools on internet safety.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7880772.stm
IDC are corrupt. Microsoft exploits this.
Related:
MS struggles to discredit Linux
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| What's cheaper than an OS you can buy outright once and install on every PC
| in your shop -- and upgrade cost-free for eternity to boot? Why, a slew of
| cheesy licenses for Microsoft Windows, 'Doze Division VP Brian Valentine
| claims in his latest cheerleading effort for his sales associates.
|
| That's right; a putatively independent analysis by 'we'll-conclude-anything'
| whores DH Brown is going to rip Linux a new one and find that Windows is
| actually cheaper. How Valentine knows this is anyone's guess. Perhaps he has
| a mole in the Brown organization as good as the one we have in his. Or
| perhaps MS simply paid for it. We don't know.
|
| It also appears that MS has bought off a number of Linux/Sun 'insiders' whose
| job it will be to explain to the sales team how to pitch the illusory
| advantages of Windows to unsuspecting IT managers. "Dumber people can run
| Windows" is the best advert I personally can come up with, though this is
| without the benefit of expensive analysts and turncoat 'insiders' to feed me
| intriguing tidbits.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/02/ms_struggles_to_discredit_linux/
Microsoft urges resellers to play it straight, beef up revs
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| Microsoft has claimed that each dollar it “loses” to software piracy equals
| $5.50 in “lost opportunities” to the firm’s channel partners.
|
| A Microsoft-sponsored white paper (pdf) released by IT analyst house IDC
| yesterday highlights the effects of copyright infringement on the software
| ecosystem across the tech industry.
|
| [...]
|
| The BSA has claimed that the value of just PC software that was counterfeited
| in 2007 was close to $50bn worldwide.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/07/10/microsoft_idc_piracy_claims/
IDC pronounces Linux unimportant to European economy [in Microsoft-commissioned
study]
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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
IDC Study:
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| "(Microsoft manager:) I don't like the fact that the report show us losing
| on TCO on webservers. I don't like the fact that the report show us losing
| on availability (windows was down more than linux). And I don't like the
| fact that the reports says nothing new is coming with windows .net server."
|
| [...]
|
| "I don't like it to be public on the doc that we sponsored it because I
| don't think the outcome is as favorable as we had hoped. I just don't like
| competitors using it as ammo against us. It is easier if it doesn't mention
| that we sponsored it."
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http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/9000/PX09695.pdf
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