They can have whatever’s left.

According to this, it should read “Roy Schestowitz Claims The Vista 7 is Just Vaporware”.

Like I keep saying, Roy, if there was a law against impersonating a journalist, you’d be behind bars for life.

Jose suggests this is a matter of priorities and available time for you. I’d like to know just exactly where “telling the truth” sits on your list of priorities. I suspect it’s somewhere down around #3422, right after “eat your greens”.

No, I actually do consider Vista 7 (e.g. for netbooks) to be vapourware and I wrote this many times before (independent of SJVN). See my reply to David Gerard.

Come on, Jose, you can’t believe the nonsense you’re spouting. Roy’s decided to leave clearly erroneous and misleading information in a headline, in flagrant disregard for the truth, after he’s been advised multiple times that it’s an error. He uses a parody article to support a headline which is arguably directly damaging to Microsoft, because it’s…directly damaging to Microsoft!

It’s a lie, Jose.

He claims to be a journalist, Jose.

If Roy’s priorities don’t leave him enough time to make the truth his top priority (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Sorry.) then he should not be calling himself a journalist.

This is what’s going to land him in big trouble, trust me.

And why do you spend all this time explaining him? Are you his press agency or something?

I think Roy has decided on a set of priorities that leave him short of time for various things, and, if he hasn’t found time (state of mind, etc) to fully digest something, I don’t think he will add a fix until he finds the time. He trusts some authors and sources (like SJVN, I think) and probably didn’t read the article very well. I don’t think he gets paid to so this. The comments already serve as bug reports. It’s not my business how he chooses to allot his time (though people can certainly complain if they want).

Windows 7 has been announced to ship to the public on October 22nd, with OEM manufacturers getting it earlier so they can install it on their new machines.

Since July, many places in the world are already taking preorders for it.

I have been running Beta and RC (both pre-release) versions of Windows 7 since last year.

Considering everything above, I can’t see how any sane or objective person can consider Windows 7 vaporware or even claim that Ballmer “Admits that (Windows) 7 is Just Vaporware” (subject title).

Clearly, an effort by Roy to use deception to misguide readers, since it has to be brought to his attention earlier in this thread and he hasn’t admitted his mistake and posted a fix yet.

Roy, if you didn’t read the whole article carefully (plus perhaps some comments) and missed that that title was possibly deceptive, then add a fix (apology, whatever) and move on.

The poll from that other blog entry suggests Windows 7 is already out. Can you confirm this Jonathan Wong?

Does anyone else have other information about the SJVN article?

As Roy has discovered.

And after all this Microsoft and the real FLOSS community–I mean the one I hung out with at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit last week–have finally found a point on which we’re in complete agreement:

We all loathe Roy.

I’ve commented on three posts here this week. Every discussion resulted to something about Microsoft and disclosures and astroturfing and blah blah blah.

Hey, if you can’t beat them in debate, attack their character instead!

Thanks for standing up for me. It’s alright. It’s Roy’s blog. So he gets to set the rules and stifle whatever he feels he needs to stifle.

Anyway, I find the whole experience engaging here rather… amusing.

This is because Roy never tells a lie.

Believe that?

Good thing being kneejerk stupid isn’t, you’d be in for life, Roy.

He identified himself at the outset. I don’t believe he’s required to continually identify himself under any “Astroturfing” law with which I’m familiar. This site doesn’t sell anything, and it doesn’t do product reviews, so it’s unclear to me what he’d do that would fall under the definition of “astroturfing”, anyway.

If you want to follow Jonathan around the site and shriek, “He’s from Microsoft! He’s from Microsoft!” have at it. After all, you’ve done as much for others.

I’d compromise and agree that Jonathan would add a note saying he worked for Microsoft if you file a complete financial disclosure form so all of us know how you’re being supported.

You’re the “editor” here, you should be held to a higher standard.

And I feel as though you’re trying to stifle discussion, unfairly. You slam Microsoft all the time; should no one be allowed to fairly present their point of view? I mean, they’ve got one. I don’t agree with it, and I wouldn’t have Bill Hilf’s job for all the tea in the Solar System, but that’s not the point.

Journalism, Roy. Fair. Balanced. Try it for a change.

FULL DISCLOSURE: I do not, and have never, worked for Microsoft in any capacity whatsoever. I did get a Port 25 t-shirt once, but I gave it to Goodwill (sorry, Jonathan, it’s kind of a boring shirt…). I do not believe that Microsoft, Inc. is the Antichrist, I do not believe that Microsoft employees are demonically possessed, I do not believe that Steve Ballmer has horns and a tail. I believe that Microsoft is a very big company that’s made a lot of bad moves and bad calls, and I’d watch ‘em like a hawk, but I also believe that, in their quest to control the desktop, they’re putting themselves in the position of the guy who cornered the buggywhip market in 1908. I further believe that open will ultimately always win over closed. So there.