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Dr Small
August 26th, 2007, 06:28 PM
How many of you all have seen this website by Microsoft?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/default.mspx

It is supposed to compare Windows Server to "Linux", but the only comparison I saw, was Windows Server to "Red Hat"...

Check it out.

Dr Small

phenest
August 26th, 2007, 06:33 PM
I wouldn't worry about it. M$ is clearly concerned about the competition, so much so, they feel they need to make Linux look bad.

Spam Banjo
August 29th, 2007, 01:41 PM
Oh My God!!!!

I hate Microsoft. I won't deny that. But I actually like Windows. They have actually got consistently better (even if it was slowly...) until Vista. And so they should have... they are run by the cleverest, richest idea thieves on the planet. Windows SHOULD be so much better... but hey... It's still pretty good all round.

I hate XP at first... but after selecting the "Best Performance" option and clearing out spyware/services/etc, it ran pretty well... I really quite liked it. Things seemed more straight forward than before.

I also hated Vista at first, but since getting a powerful machine at work, and a beastly laptop, I'm actually starting to love the bloody thing! It deals with my MP3 and Video folders well enough not to need anything other than Windows Media Player to organise them. Which is a first for Windows IMO. Winamp for me has always been the daddy from as far back as 1997.

As a home user Vista is 'effin great... I love it, and would recommend it (providing your machine is a monster)... as a business user... not so great. I work on Ubuntu because of the stability, extra power and versatility of the OS.


It's just logical to me then, that a Linux Server would far surpass the Performance of a Micro$oft one. Purely because of what I know about how Linux uses your machine's resources so perfectly in comparison.

So can anyone explain this link (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/compare_linux.mspx)???

It's a page describing why M$ servers are so much better than Linux servers. It's the only time I've heard anyone say an M$ server is better than a Linux server in nearly 10 years as a web/graphic designer. The general opinion I've always found is that if it can be done in Linux... It will be double performance for half the price.

The Linux bashing page does not make sense to me... unless... Ah... wait a minute... LOOK WHERE IT'S HOSTED!!! LMAO!!!!

Are they serious with this or what?!?!?

I need the opinions of others, cus I'm not well really that well educated in server technologies... to help me decide if this should be classed as slanderous or not!!!

bapoumba
August 29th, 2007, 01:47 PM
Thread merged.

Bungo Pony
August 29th, 2007, 01:51 PM
These sites never make sense to me. It's like going onto a Scientology website to compare Scientology vs The Mormons. You know they're going to bend or embellish the facts (and even lie) to make themselves look better.

strabes
August 29th, 2007, 03:43 PM
I especially like the "Choice" section:

Red Hat: It’s a commercialized world
Windows: Microsoft and the Windows ecosystem provides customers with more choice than any other server platform.

Then they say that Microsoft gives you more choices because Linux has many distributions and Microsoft only has one...?

M$LOL
August 29th, 2007, 03:53 PM
How many of you all have seen this website by Microsoft?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/default.mspx

It is supposed to compare Windows Server to "Linux", but the only comparison I saw, was Windows Server to "Red Hat"...

Check it out.

Dr Small

Who cares? It's all just marketing. M$ are just doing what they've always done. This post put it in perspective for me, http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2859147&postcount=36

Look at the bit M$ took out of their quote.