Microsoft Pays Ziff Davis to Promote Windows Vista
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2009-04-10 13:32:33 UTC
Modified: 2009-04-10 13:32:33 UTC
Summary: Ziff Davis, a supposedly objective publisher, is publicly promoting Microsoft products for the company's dollars
IT IS NEITHER secret nor news that Ziff Davis is in Microsoft's pocket. We wrote about this a month ago. There are many more examples we could give (e.g. its publication eWeek [1, 2, 3]), but here is a brand new example that a reader sent to us.
See that last line. This is sent as a newsletter to many people and the take-home message is that Windows Vista is a must for security, even though it's provably terrible for security.
At times it seems like what we deal with are many weak patents (on algorithms), valuations or speculations based on hype ("hey hi"), and stocks held by Microsoft and its own staff
As noted a few days ago, several times in fact, many people now recognise the importance of the FSF's mission, even if most people don't know what the FSF is
Comments
Jose_X
2009-04-10 22:04:55
Oh, Microsoft's.
E.T. can now phone home with a little more privacy.