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摘要

Microsoft sticks it to Linux ahead of Windows 7rnAs the launch of Windows 7 approaches, Microsoft is distributing literature to American retailers claiming that Linux works with few peripherals or online services, offers limited software capability, has no authorised support, does not work with games, and cannot use video chat on any of the major IM networks. Responding to the comprehensive damnation of the open source software, one Linux blogger said, "These types of below-the-belt tactics cast Microsoft in a bad light. To resort to such methods to market its software, especially considering that many of the claims made are untrue, smacks of desperation."