THE grooming of Microsoft has gotten pretty bad, but it's not nearly as bad as gross distortion of facts. The ToryGraph, an oftentimes pro-Microsoft paper, does some professional revisionism in the "Microsoft" section today, disguised quite shrewdly as "a brief history" of "Web browsers". It's really just a Microsoft ad, as one can instantaneously see.

"If often seems like Microsoft's PR campaigns know no boundaries; they make what is perhaps the most famous Web browser in history just vanish, and not just once.""Somehow they manage to leave out Netscape," iophk wrote to us. Watch the comments and especially those commenters who allude to Netscape. One comment says: "Bloody rubbish. Internet Explorer was based on Mosiac and where is Netscape in the list?!"

This is disgusting. Microsoft propaganda that distorts history like this is something we have become accustomed to and have seen in the British media before. Having committed crimes against Netscape (see this petition text), Microsoft is yet again deleting it from history, like the Microsoft-connected BBC did for Microsoft half a decade ago in a TV programme. If often seems like Microsoft's PR campaigns know no boundaries; they make what is perhaps the most famous Web browser in history just vanish, and not just once. We have shown more examples of this over the years. It's not accidental. It's extremely likely to be deliberate and conscious because only a fool or a self-deceiving journalist can make gross omissions like that. ⬆

“Microsoft is, I think, fundamentally an evil company.”

--Former Netscape Chairman James H. Clark