Microsoft FUD Watch

rs232 writes "Not a week goes by when Microsoft doesn't manufacture a little fear, uncertainty and doubt about something. Yesterday's financial analyst conference was full of it ... Our approach is simple: We look at who said what and why it's FUD. Lots of companies engage in FUD, and we only single out Microsoft because we're Microsoft Watch"

Microsoft aren't entirely truthful?

[HappySmileMan]

I think I may have seen a story like that somewhere else on /.

What we need is more stories comparing Linux and Windows, preferablt by someone getting paid by either Microsoft or a Linux vendor, that's another topic that's hardly ever covered here

way to go

[flynt]

Pointing out MS FUD is like taking home the drunkest, ugliest girl in the bar. Yah, you did it, but no one is impressed.

Fixed that for ya!!

[Anonymous Coward]

"Not a day goes by when Slashdot doesn't manufacture a little fear, uncertainty and doubt about something.

There, fixed that for ya! Wouldn't want people to get the impression that Slashdot is "fair and balanced". When you are the #1 source of anti-MS FUD, ya'll gotta represent!!

Keep it real, yo!!

Re:Oh wow what a worthless site

[Sciros]

No that's #4. But what you just did was #2 :-) yes I wins! :thumbs up:

Re:way to go

[Himring]

Did you see her again or was it just a one nighter?

Re:FUD?

[MontyApollo]

Apparently "FUD" has become the new word for "spin"

Re:way to go

[WED Fan]

But, dude, did you have to marry her? Even after you found out she was your sister?

FUD?

[warmgun]

Wow, I'm a noob. All this time I thought FUD stood for fucked up data. I need to study this list [wikipedia.org]!

Re:way to go

[Dystopian Rebel]

Pointing out MS FUD is like taking home the drunkest, ugliest girl in the bar. Yah, you did it, but no one is impressed.

But if she forces you to move out of the basement, your parents will be thrilled.

Re:FUD?

[kebes]

Is it just me or do these guys find it impossible to speak english in a plain and simple fashion?

As part of the marketing department for a major corporation on the cutting-edge of deploying Web 2.0 applications, allow me to explain how best to interpret press releases. First, it is important to realize that the press release is not trying to merely inform you about upcoming product releases, it is trying to enlighten you about how you can best capitalize on your financial holdings by investing them in efficient products that deliver value-added productivity to your workforce. Essentially, it is a dialog between the customers and the product engineers. By encouraging this kind of customer engagement, the marketing team is able to create a synergistic expenditure of resources, where the customer needs are balanced against the fiduciary responsibilities of the product-developing company. This allows the company to recoup fixed costs while helping the customer achieve their full potential in a vital, thriving ecosystem of commercial activities.

I hope that clears things up!

Re:way to go

[Anonymous Coward]

This being slashdot, what is this "girl" you refer to?

Re:/. FUD Watch

[Opportunist]

At least wait for Microsoft to actually do something, you know they will.

Do you really? I mean, could just be FUD, you know...

Re:FUD?

[Silver Sloth]

I know how picker the regulars can be

Oh, the humour in irony.

Nice Slashvertisement

[goldspider]

Preaching to the anti-Microsoft choir; it's not just for Slashdot karma anymore!

Re:/. FUD Watch

[Joe Snipe]

This is as bad as the guy at work that keeps talking about his ex-wife, who he divorced 15 years ago

I didn't divorce her, she divorced ME! Apparantly you listen as well as she does; one time I had asked her to pick up our daughter at soccer practice, as I had a late meeting and I wouldn't be able to get her, and do you know where she went? Do you? She went to the hairdresser! My daughter is standing out at the soccer field in the rain and she is off gettting her hair tinted. Can you believe it?

Re:/. FUD Watch

[WED Fan]

Joe, give it a rest, just let it go, she's gone, she got the house, the car, and she married her best girlfriend. So, you turned her gay, so what?

Dissapointing and misleading article title...

[iBod]

I thought for a minute that MS had released a new product: "The Microsoft FUD Watch". i.e. Something you could strap to your wrist and monitor the amount of FUD present in any particular technology sector at that very instant - as well as being able to tell the time, set alarms etc.

We are pro-lotsastuff

[pentalive]

No one is just "anti-microsoft"- they're either pro-mac, or pro-linux.

I am pro-Commodore 64 you insensitive clod. (Now You Kids GET OFF MY GRASS!!)