A few days ago a post emerged on http://overclock.net/ showing the FUD that Microsoft is currently spreading to Best Buy Employees. The claims made in most of these slides are baseless and simply advertising put out. Read on:

Microsoft aims to compare an OS to a Kernel
In this slide Microsoft are first off not stating any distribution. They are simply comparing Windows to the Linux Kernel. If they had stated a distribution like Ubuntu this table would have been proven wrong definitely, but since they haven’t, their claims are baseless. Lets take a look at the actual content.
First off they try to state that windows has more Camera, iPod and MP3 player compatibility. FIrst off, almost all digital camera’s are just removable flash drive, which every OS supports, iPods other than the touch range are perfectly supported in Ubuntu and MP3 Players? Since this is basically the same situation as with the camera’s, another baseless claim.
Next, they try and say that Windows has more support for printers and scanners than Linux. This is true, if you like installing drivers from CD’s and when you lose them having to mess around on the internet to find the drivers. Out of the box Linux Hardware support is MUCH better than Windows’.
The next comparison is partially true, where they state that Windows has more commercial software then Ubuntu. This is true, but Linux has many more alternatives and most popular Windows only software will run perfectly in WiNE.
Next they say that Windows Live Essentials are not available for Linux. Who the hell want’s Windows Live Essentials? Windows live messenger is a piece of bloated crap, and Pidgin takes it’s place nicely, or if you really want to be able to send that pointless wink aMSN does the job just as well. Just a few weeks ago I was rebuilding a friends machine with Windows XP. We then proceeded to download Windows Live Essentials to get Windows Live Messenger, and once it installed it WOULD NOT log in. We read the error message up on the net and it said it can occur if the time is wrong. Since when does an app’s ability to log in been affected by the system time?! Anyway, we then set the time, and it logged in fine. But now, another problem. The contacts list wouldn’t appear and every time we added a contact it would just disappear, so we followed a guide on the net (again nothing on Microsoft’s ‘extensive’ support site) that called first for a reinstall of WLM so we did, same problem, then there were some rather obscure instructions for deleting the contacts cache, which we did, and still no bone. She then had the bright idea of trying eBuddy (it’s a free online chat client, usually used for machines that don’t have any chat clients installed, and it supports MSN), and it logs in fine with the contacts list. So I then think that it is a bad install of Windows and then rebuild it with a stock Windows XP disk that I used to use. It boots fine, runs fine, but still has the same WLM problem. How did we fix it? Installed aMSN. After two weeks she is still using it happily.
The gaming part of this comparison is largely correct, but the game stated in the comparison actually runs perfectly from within WiNE, and a lot of others do too. Then it states that Linux has NO authorised support. So the support services being sold by Canonical is not authorised then? Video Chat on major IM networks, Not sure what they would classify as main networks, but aMSN video chat works perfectly, Skype works well (I have a guide here dedicated to fixing any issues), and many other networks work perfectly.
You may think that last slide was bad, but this one is by far my favourite. According to Microsoft Ubuntu updates are hard.

Microsoft tries to convince workers that updating Ubuntu is hard
Lets start at the most obvious thing wrong here. Ubuntu updates are as easy and probably easier than Windows Updates.
Ooh look, it’s so difficult
Oh look, the updater popped up telling me it had some IMPORTANT SECURITY UPDATES TO INSTALL!! and if I scroll down a bit There will be a subheading saying optional updates! Its just so hard to tell these days, they make it so difficult! Oh look as well, theres a big button called ‘install updates’ there. I wonder what I click? </sarcasm>. Seriously though, how is that difficult? Look at the windows updater and tell me the above is not more simple.

Oh lawdy, arent Windows updates fun?
Seriously Microsoft, stop spreading this crap. Nobody but total idiots will fall for this crap. Honestly.