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Thursday, August 26, 2004

Microsoft to Change Anti-Linux Ad

WSJ (registration required): "Microsoft was told to change an advertisement that claimed the Linux operating system had a real cost 10 times higher than Microsoft's own Windows product. The UK's Advertising Standards Authority, an industry watchdog, ordered the Redmond, Washington software giant to alter the ad that ran in a specialist magazine for three months on the grounds it was 'misleading.' Microsoft is fighting a challenge from Linux, an open-source operating system that is finding increasing favor with corporations and government. A Microsoft spokeswoman said the ad was part of a series and was the only one to have caused a problem."

It's nice to see a company respond quickly and positively to this kind of charge, even if the advertising was limited to a single "specialist" magazine in the UK, and wasn't used in worldwide print, Web, and TV advertising like, say, ads by certain other untrustworthy companies.

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