LXer: Microsoft Runs Linux Smear Campaign

LXer · 02-02-2008, 04:42 AM

Published at LXer:

Microsoft is going out of their way to buy up keyword searches on Google. They've bought up the keyword "Linux" so that an erroneous website claiming that Windows Server 2008 is superior to Linux Servers pops up first. The site doesn't go on to backup this claim with any real evidence; in fact, it mostly argues that Windows Server 2008 is better than previous Windows Servers.

[I tried to re-create what the author did but the results page errors out on me. - Scott]

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crashmeister · 02-02-2008, 06:21 AM

Now who is fudding who?MS can spend their ad dollars any way they like to I'd suppose.Otherwise we can all go and move to North Corea.But thats just me.