Ballmer 'fesses up to Linux/Windows cost FUD (Register)

[Posted July 16, 2002 by cook]

The Register reports that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted that Linux is indeed less expensive to run than Microsoft products. "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."

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