Category: war on fud

We’ve come to expect some great deal of FUD from Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Corporation. But his minions (no offense intended) seem to have picked up on the art, and are doing so quite nicely. According to Jeff Jones, strategy director in the Microsoft Security Technology Unit, Windows vista beats Sun Solaris and Linux … Read More “Microsoft: Windows safer / more secure then Linux, Sun Solaris” »

One of the nice things about Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft Corp. is that he always is full of FUD. This time, he continues on the subject of my previous ‘war on fud‘ post, where he stated that “linux users owe Microsoft“. According this article on Zdnet, he repeats his threats against Linux, and … Read More “Steve Ballmer : Linux is not free” »

At least, that is what Steve Ballmer claims in an interview. This so smells like another round of FUD from Microsoft. Mind you, he does not deliver any form of proof, but it’s more a continuation of the deal with Novell earlier this week, where Microsoft agrees not to sue users of Novell products. ( … Read More “Microsoft: Linux owners owe Microsoft” »