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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Bound to Lose Market Share, Relies on Its Shill-cosystem

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Bound to Lose Market Share, Relies on Its Shill-cosystem
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:38:25 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
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.    
`----

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.     
| 
| [...]
| 
| 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.
| 
| 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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