MS ad push cranks up the 'get Linux' volume

Microsoft has begun the new year with a Linux knocking publicity campaign under the slogan "Get the Facts." A series of advertisements is due to run for six months in major IT publications, and will direct readers to the company's landing page for the campaign.

There you will find a long list of what we presume are expensively produced case studies, and a substantially shorter list of "independent analyses" which "prove" a variety of things (e.g. Windows cheaper than Websphere, .NET cheaper than J2EE/Linux), but which have already been widely circulated, and frequently fairly widely doubted.

And really, Microsoft's problem is not that people think Linux is cheaper than Windows (apart from them being well aware that Linux is free and Windows isn't, that is), but that Microsoft's customers are in general pretty convinced that Windows is more expensive than it should be.