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Microsoft is at it again. PUMP AND DUMP the hype about their latest Operating System before it hits the market.



Microsoft 'indoctrinates' Best Buy workers with anti-Linux 'lies'


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Microsoft (MFST (http://finance.aol.com/quotes/microsoft-corporation/msft/nas)) is "indoctrinating" Best Buy (BBY (http://finance.aol.com/quotes/best-buy-incorporated/bby/nys)) workers to sell its highly anticipated Windows 7 operating system using outright lies about the performance of open-source competitor Linux, according to Linux experts and at least one Best Buy employee who has seen the alleged Microsoft training slides.

"Linux does not support many common applications and online services like iTunes, Zune, Quicken, Photoshop, and Office 2007," asserts one slide in the now-leaked Microsoft ExpertZone training module (http://linuxinnovations.blogspot.com/2009/09/microshit-trains-bestbuy-employees-to.html) designed for Best Buy employees preparing to sell Windows 7, which will be released in October. Another slide calls the statement "Linux is safer than Windows," a "myth."

Source: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/09/06/microsoft-indoctrinates-best-buy-workers-with-anti-linux-lies/?icid=main|compaq-laptop|dl5|link5|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailyfinance.com %2F2009%2F09%2F06%2Fmicrosoft-indoctrinates-best-buy-workers-with-anti-linux-lies%2F (http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/09/06/microsoft-indoctrinates-best-buy-workers-with-anti-linux-lies/?icid=main%7Ccompaq-laptop%7Cdl5%7Clink5%7Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailyfinan ce.com%2F2009%2F09%2F06%2Fmicrosoft-indoctrinates-best-buy-workers-with-anti-linux-lies%2F)

[zagam]

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Microsoft's interoperability is a joke. They are probably still in contempt of the EU ruling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Microsoft_competition_case

Their fud is a pants pisser. WARNING reading this link may have unpleasant effects.

In http://www.microsoft.com/protocols/ I found http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/102664/microsoft-interoperable-yes-but-no-respect-at-all.html

I am now sure that Microsoft users are insane. My daughter who is a Mac user and medico agrees. At one stage she was thinking of doing psychiatry.

If you want to write software then write portable software. If you want to run that software then Cygwin may be the shot.

Cygwin is the most functional and provides an X server (portable GUI).
It has an API Reference.
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html

I was toying with MinGW so you can cross compile on virus free platform.