Microsoft Offering Anti-Linux Course To BestBuy Employees

It is a known fact that Microsoft did not always play nice when it comes to advertising the benefits of their products, specially when dealing against Apple. But today they crossed yet another line. Just when you think that Microsoft is beginning to do things right they somehow manage to screw up their own reputation again.

A Best Buy employee who either does not have a Non Disclosure Agreement or has a lot of guts revealed that Microsoft is giving a cheaper copy of Windows 7 (10 USD) to those Best Buy employees who take part in a training course online. Such course shows the basic aspects of Windows 7 and compares them to Linux (no indication of which distribution, just plain Linux). Published story and screenshots here. Mirror unlimited bandwidth for images here.

According to the course contents, the supposed features that make Windows 7 superior to linux are higher compatibility with Hardware, Software, Windows Essentials (doh!), "Free Downloads", "The games that your customers want: eg. World of Warcraft", and the fact that the OS receives less and bigger updates while a Linux distribution can receive hundreds in a month (honestly I didn't know that having your OS up to date daily was a bad thing!). It also mentions the fact that Linux documentation and support is limited while Windows is more documented and the support immediate and authorized.


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