THE FIRM which does a lot of work for Microsoft (including bribing bloggers for pro-Microsoft coverage) is one that we already showed to be connected to 'Consumer' 'Watchdog', which only ever relentlessly attacks Google (but never Microsoft, even where Microsoft does the exact same things Google is accused of, if not worse). When AstroTurf operation 'Consumer' 'Watchdog' smears Google it is also going against Android and Chrome OS, which help in bringing GNU/Linux to the masses (at Windows' expense). So who benefits the most from the acts of 'Consumer' 'Watchdog'? We previously covered its relationship to the Rose Foundation and to Edelman, to whom Microsoft is a major customer. As this new article from CNET puts it:
It used to be affiliated with Grassroots Enterprises, a division of the huge public relations firm Edelman that counts Microsoft among its clients, and, amusingly, uses Google Analytics to chart traffic on sites hosted under its domain. Court said Consumer Watchdog has recently moved its site off Grassroots' servers and is now using an open-source analytics tool to measure traffic on Consumerwatchdog.com.
A decision by the U.S. government’s General Services Administration to go with Google over Microsoft for internal messaging has really annoyed the folks at Microsoft.
Silverlight 5 will let you host HTML content as browser control so HTML pages can be added to an application. Apps and devices on the PC will be called using COM components - Microsoft first added COM support to Silverlight 4 - while unmanaged code will be called using Pinvoke.