Microsoft caught lying (again)

Microsoft has been claiming for a while that netbooks running some form of Linux have a return rate approximately four times that of netbooks running Windows. They then state that this is proof consumers prefer Windows.

The kicker is that this is an outright lie. As Todd Finch, one of Dell's senior marketing managers pointed out, the rate of return for the two are approximately the same. It's one thing for Microsoft to spread FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) by twisting the truth, but in this case they completely they went beyond that, snapping the facts in half in order to get out their propaganda.

The major question is, if consumers returning netbooks with one OS at a higher rate than netbooks with another OS implies that the latter OS is superior, what does the fact that Microsoft had to resort to dishonesty to get "evidence" for the popularity of their product say?