It couldn't last: my favorite resource for Microsoft FUD and unintentional support for open source software, Microsoft's "Get the Facts" website, is no longer. Originally positioned by Microsoft to be a repository of good, un-biased information from third-party researchers about how much better Windows Server is than Linux, it was from the start a propaganda site that published Microsoft-sponsored research, cherry-picked content and misleading editorial content.
I read about the death at Linux Watch: <a href="http://linux-watch.com/news/NS5294337662.html">Microsoft kills off anti-Linux 'Get the Facts' site</a>. I wrote about "Get the Facts" earlier this summer here (<a href="http://www.linuxcookbook.com/2007/07/microsofts-get-.html">"Microsoft's "Get the Facts" (tm) Campaign, Deconstructed"</a>), and was hoping to make a mini-career of deconstructing all that propaganda. Now, I'll just have to look for the FUD in new places, but the good news is that Microsoft's replacement, <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/default.mspx">windowsserver/compare</a>, looks like it'll be chock full of FUD-goodness. I suspect all those old links to Microsoft's "research" results will be broken now, though.
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