[ale] Microsoft Found Guilty of Misleading Advertising

[Irv Mullins]

On Wednesday 25 August 2004 11:48, Randal Jarrett wrote:
> >From /.
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> Microsoft Found Guilty of Misleading Advertising
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> Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday August 25, @08:16AM
> from the everybody-play-nicely dept.
> gtoomey writes "The UK Advertising Standards Authority has upheld
> complaints that Microsoft misled consumers by running advertisements
> claiming Linux is 10 times more expensive than Windows. The print
> advertisements used "independent research" to compare the cost of Linux
> on an expensive mainframe to Windows on a PC."

That's not the first offense.
I recall them selling me something they claimed was an "operating system".
Hoo, fooled me!

Irv