Ballmer ’fesses up to Linux/Windows cost FUD

From The Register, “Ballmer ’fesses up to Linux/Windows cost FUD”. For quite some time, Microsoft maintainted that Linux costed more than Windows. But, they’ve apparently realized that people just aren’t buying that anymore:

Windows is a lot more expensive to run than Linux, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has finally confessed. Despite Redmond’s heroic efforts to defeat common knowledge with elaborately-rigged total cost of ownership ‘studies’, innuendo, FUD and outright distortions, the rhetorical power of common experience has become too powerful, even for a marketing behemoth like MS.

According to an article by VARBusiness, Ballmer now concedes that MS execs “haven’t figured out how to be lower-priced than Linux. For us as a company, we’re going through a whole new world of thinking.” [...]

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