[Bush2000]

The man runs a department that takes Microsoft grant money, true or false?

False. Ford is listed as a "Research Professor". Nowhere does it indicate that he takes Microsoft grant money, personally. Here's a perfect example of one of Ford's projects:

"One of the projects Ford heads up, funded by a grant from the Office of Naval Research, is a proactive antivirus program with the ability to recognize malware (a virus, worm or Trojan) that it has never encountered before. Current antivirus software,"

You slandered the man and his research. It's that simple. You leaped to the false conclusion that because MS funded some research project at one time for a professor other than Ford, that he accepts MS grant money. Which is utterly FALSE and SLANDEROUS.

[Knitebane]

Since you're slow, I'll use small words...

This guy decided to do a Windows vs. Linux test.

His department takes Microsoft's money. No matter how much you spin, you can't deny that fact.

Now, he could have avoided the appearance of impropriety by getting someone from the Unix department to do the Linux part of the test, but he didn't.

And he can't claim that it didn't occur to him that there might be an appearance of impropriety, since he's been publicly called on it (and responded to it) before.

Very simply, the test may or may not be accurate (we don't know because the only thing published thus far are the results, not the methodology or testing criteria) but it's tainted by his connection to Microsoft dollars.

The only reason to go ahead and run his test would be to make the grant givers at Microsoft sit up and take notice of him.

Well, that and to give you shills some another tainted report to crow about.