Microsoft Training: Windows 7 Better than Linux
Microsoft up to its tricks.
Many companies across many industries partake in some form of evangelism (though some would call it propaganda) for its products. Some of the best evangelism starts at the retail level, where employees can 'inform' the buying consumer while trying to sell a life-saving in-store warranty policy.
A Best Buy employee, who happens to also be an overclock.net forum poster, recently partook in a Microsoft ExpertZone training exercise (with the incentive to be able to buy Windows 7 for $10) encountered materials from Microsoft that push certain superiorities that Windows 7 possess over Linux. While some points were valid, others were untrue.
One of the slides that Microsoft used (above) is fairly misleading, as World of Warcraft is supported in Linux through WINE. Windows Live Essentials are indeed a Windows-only product, but there are many other free alternatives. Video chat is also supported well on Linux through Skype and Pidgin. See here a mirror of the original thread.
It seems that Microsoft is trying to fight off Linux machines that are sold through Best Buy, which if any, are netbooks only. We can't imagine that there will be many customers who will wander into Best Buy without a clue of which operating system he or she should go with – the new and shiny Windows 7 or the mysterious, counter-culture Linux.
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That really is quite shocking...
Unfortunately, that's not shocking at all.
Not shocking at all - plus... have you seen the "comparison" of IE8 versus other browsers on microsoft.com ???? Now - that's shocking...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/i [...] rison.aspx
Shocking? Really? BAH, this is only to be expected and everything that MS said is technically right, sort of, if you have your head in a bucket of sand or are just a computer user who wants/needs a machine they can turn on and have work out of the box (allegedly).
Talking about WINE thought if we are giving a comparrison of an out of the box experience then the slide is perfectly true as wine does not come as standard with many linux distros especially the main ones as it is 3rd party to the distro, so yes games arent supported by linux natively.
Also a lot of people who would receive a linux computer would not know about WINE to allow compatability to a degree with windows programs and even then WINE is not a perfect solution for full compatability of ALL games
Microsoft Windows running Internet Explorer and Norton Inernet Security.
Boy, are those Linux people missing out..
I'm a Win7 + Avast + Opera guy.
I had some issue with Ubuntu I couldn't be assed to spend my time fixing, so I'm just sticking with Linux for servers now.
I work at a retail store and i have a chance of taking this training and if i have to read a bit of false propaganda so i only have the spend 10Bux on Windows 7 it's cool with me
and 90% of people using a computer windows 7 is the best solution out there most people use the computer for e-mail pictures reading blogs and my space on the net so windows 7 is all they need