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The Real Blunder is Up-to-date Exchange Systems Being or Getting Compromised for Two Months (While Microsoft Knew About That), Not Anything 'Linux'

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Summary: There seems to be a deliberately misleading campaign seeking to associate "Linux" with something about "malware" in "China"; the real "malware" or "China" (not really) news is actually about Microsoft and Windows

THREE days ago I began to notice distraction tactics or Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) tactics, seemingly aimed at distracting the public from the real news and set focus on some phony non-news, namely that old and unmaintained servers are a security risk. They just are. If you're using something that has been out of support for years, that's just bound to happen, no matter what operating system is used...



"Is this an ongoing 'googlebombing' campaign?"At the moment Microsoft risks losing perhaps hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars in contracts. IT departments put forth proposals to dump Microsoft, not just for Web servers (IIS is dying) but also for E-mail servers, maybe a lot more! Corporate media shoots its own foot in a major way by helping liars from Microsoft blame everyone but themselves for what's happening right now to Exchange "Servers" [sic] and more shameless is the media campaign, led partly by Microsoft-connected sites, to associate "Linux" with something about "malware" in "China". Is this an ongoing 'googlebombing' campaign? Or just a timely coincidence? We'll leave it for readers to decide, but watchers of the video can see my findings, which I've accumulated and shared for 3 days now.

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