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Microsoft's Disdain for Women Steals the Show at a Women's Event

Satya Ballmer
Satya Ballmer



Summary: Steve Ballmer's successor, Satya Nadella, is still too tactless to lie to the audience, having been given --through subversive means -- a platform at a conference that should have shunned Microsoft, a famously misogynistic company

Several days ago we warned that Microsoft was hijacking the Grace Hopper conference and thankfully enough Microsoft just continues to show its hatred towards women, not the opposite. Still, Microsoft became the news. Everything else received little or no coverage. This in itself derailed the event.



Microsoft totally stole the show last week. The show was not about Microsoft, but a publicity stunt and some bribes typically distort events in Microsoft's favour.

"Microsoft hijacked a conference about women in tech last week and this made it the topic of the whole coverage..."Microsoft booster Stephen Withers reminds us how companies bribe journalists, for example, as he ends his article with this: "Disclosure: The writer traveled to the Progress Exchange conference as the guest of the company."

This is how Microsoft bribes journalists, giving them flights and other perks in exchange for event coverage and Microsoft propaganda in the international media. It is fake journalism that is actually PR, not journalism. See how this abusive company where managers don't get along (high tensions between Gates and Ballmer) is characterised in the press as one big happy family. Total lie. Unchallenged.

Now let's get back to the point. Microsoft hijacked a conference about women in tech last week and this made it the topic of the whole coverage as seen here. "First," says The Register, "we discovered that things had gotten so bad between former Microsoft bosses Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer that they don’t even speak to each other anymore." Then comes lots of Microsoft woman-washing (trying to associate Microsoft with women).

"Microsoft was able to hijack media coverage of yet another conference," told us a reader. "Microsoft participation is toxic." Here are some more examples of how Microsoft hijacked coverage of this event. There remains a stigma that women cannot succeed in FOSS and that one cannot enter into the community unless "a white male" (this is from a Microsoft-friendly site).

Nadella -- let's face it -- is not a real Microsoft CEO, for reasons that we covered before. He is a Microsoft front end. The company is still controlled and run by serial criminals. Ballmer and Gates put a Ramji in charge of that mole strategy against FOSS for similar reasons; these people are a PR facet that hides their employer's insidious activities (bribes, racketeering, et cetera).

Nadella has not done well in his speech. He actually offended women, even though it was not his intention. Nadella is not yet a good liar like Ballmer and Gates, but he did make the headlines (unlike Grace Hopper) , ending up in the middle a PR gaffe. Now he's in a rush to apologise.

"What Bill and Satya did not want covered," says our reader, is the angle that is so embarrassing and Sarah Gray explained to a lot of readers at Salon (Microsoft has already tired to change her article).

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