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Microsoft tries to bribe Best Buy employees to learn lies about Linux

Microsoft has been targeting the OS competition this year in order to prepare for the release of Windows 7. Mac and Linux have been coming under fire from Microsoft lately with a barrage of ad campaigns and patent schemes. After the leak of the Best Buy training material onto the Web recently, more information has been revealed indicating that Microsoft is bribing Best Buy employees with a little incentive to take the training.

We recently covered a story where an alleged Best Buy employee leaked training information in where Microsoft distorts the truth about the capabilities of Linux. According to Gizmodo, It has been confirmed that Microsoft has indeed provided Best Buy with questionable training software that talks about the difference between Windows 7 and Linux.

The reason I say that its questionable is because the training material contains distorted selective truths about Linux. For example according to the training material, Linux is less safe than Windows 7, and won’t work with cameras, and mp3 players. First of all the Windows operating system will almost always be less safe then any other OS out there. This is due to the fact so many hackers have honed in on Windows.

Also, secondly there are literally tons of mp3 players out on the Web that fully work with Linux without any compatibility issues. The training material even goes on to indicate that Linux can’t run World of Warcraft, which is hogwash as gamers have been running it for a couple years now.

According to Gizmodo, Microsoft is bribing Best Buy employees to take the questionable training by offering Windows 7 for only $10. Considering the fact that Windows 7 will run you anywhere from $200 to $300, this offer is highly unusual.

Back in August, Microsoft formally acknowledged that Linux was a serious threat. Since then, Microsoft tried to instigate a patent war between patent trolls and Linux. The company is now trying to bribe Best Buy employees to learn distorted truths about Linux. I understand that Microsoft believes that this is the right thing to do in a competitive market, but as the largest software company in the world a bit of professionalism wouldn’t hurt.

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Posted by Sana Iqbal on Sep 15th, 2009 and filed under Others Stuff, Technolgy. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response by filling following comment form or trackback to this entry from your site

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