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Corporate Media and Friends of Microsoft Are Still Lying About the Cost of Vista 10

So Windows is "free"? People will believe it's true if it's repeated often enough.

“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.” ― Criss Jami

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” ― Mark Twain

“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” ― William Blake

Summary: In a desperate effort to beat operating systems that are Free (libre) and free (gratis), such as GNU/Linux or Android, Microsoft shores up the illusion of 'free' (gratis) Windows

SINCE the very beginning of this year Microsoft has been lying about the cost of Vista 10, usually by proxy, by deceiving the press or working with the press to mislead the public.



The terms "free" and "Windows" (sometimes in conjunction) are still being floated in news headlines so as to mislead. Vista 10 is not free, it's just "marketing", as Microsoft itself says. Here is a new example which contradicts prior statements. The title says "Pirates will be able to upgrade to a pirated copy of Windows 10 for free," despite prior refutations.

"Anything to keep them from upgrading to GNU/Linux," wrote iophk, who alludes to old reports such as "If You're Going To Steal Software, Steal From Us: Microsoft Exec" or even Bill Gates' own statement which went like this: "And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours."

Well, surely because GNU/Linux is more evil than "theft" [sic], at least to Microsoft.

Microsoft calling Vista 10 "10" (there's no number 9) makes as much sense as Canonical calling the next Ubuntu "17.10" in order to make it seem or sound more futuristic (a year ahead of the rest). Vista 10 is not a new operating system, it is new branding with a new marketing strategy that includes false claims that it is "free" (because Vista 8 did so badly and people actively avoided it).

The Microsoft-occupied tabloid ZDNet pays lip service to Vista 10 in this new article about Vista 10. It quotes so-called 'analysts' from firms that Microsoft paid to advertise Vista (IDC for instance), including the Gartner Group, which said that Windows Vista would be great and is already lying about the cost Vista 10 (some Gartner staff comes from Microsoft.

Watch out and be careful of articles that claim Vista 10 to be "free". It's a misleading case of "marketing", as Microsoft itself explained to its own shareholders/investors in its latest SEC filings. When Microsoft bribed authorities in Nigeria (to drop a GNU/Linux deal with Mandriva) its spokespeople called it "marketing help", so we know what Microsoft means by "marketing".

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