No wonder Linux netbooks are not selling ‘that’ well! – Microsoft teaches Best Buy to trash Linux
Microsoft has confirmed (to dailyfinance) that it actually DOES train the Best Buy Employees the ‘important’ differences between Linux and Windows Computers. Few Best Buy employees leaked the training slides on the web which depict the Microsoft’s Anti-Linux agenda “Linux does not support many common applications and online services like iTunes, Zune, Quicken, Photoshop, and Office 2007″. They even go one step ahead and simply said “Linux is not safer than Windows”
Our take on the aforementioned claims by MSFT:
1) Linux does not support many common applications and online services like iTunes, Zune, Quicken, Photoshop, and Office 2007:
Linux may not be having the exact apps, but it has alternatives that do the same stuff. All that for free. For Photoshop, one can get GIMP. For Office, Openoffice and many others. There is even an app for syncing music with your iPod!
2) Linux is not safer than Windows:
I would answer this in just two lines
How many virus, trojans etc are there for Windows?
..and How many of them are there for Linux? Almost none!
How very surprising is that Microsoft instead of clarifying anything said this
“Microsoft works with its partners to help them prepare to sell our products in a competitive marketplace,”
Frankly, I am not shocked to see Microsoft doing this. A couple of years back, when the Linux netbooks were getting popular, Microsoft reduced the price of Windows XP to almost nothing ($25) to kick the Linux OS out of the fast-growing netbook market.
Note: Ofcourse, the employee who leaked the slides got fired, but he said that telling the truth to the world was far more important than keeping his job.
[Link to the fired employee's photobucket account where you can find all the leaked slides]
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Really? You are telling me that Gimp is equivalent to Photoshop? And that the average user can easily navigate through Linux as well as winows? And that open office is exactly as good as MS Office? Powerpoint itself kills Open Office. Linux is a very stable OS but if you can’t do everything with it then its not as good, bottom line. Linux needs to be developed into a GUI heavy OS so that the average user can use it. Until then, buddy boys like yourself are the only ones that are gonna hype it.