Billions in Microsoft Bribes to Media/Publishers ('Marketing') Down the Drain

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2022-04-01 17:29:00 UTC
Modified: 2022-04-01 17:29:00 UTC

Recent: Microsoft 'Delighted' by Windows 11 (Vista 11) Usage, Which is Only 1% Three Months After Official Launch and Six Months After Release Online

Yesterday:

The fail of Windows

Today:

Windows 31%
Windows is not as dominant as Microsoft wants developers to believe

Summary: Microsoft has new excuses for Vista 11 'growth' (Windows cannibalisation) basically stopping; they and their spinners would say TPM (yes. they themselves imposed restrictions and later relaxed them) is at fault, not the operating system being nothing but hype and double trouble; in other words, now they blame their very own restrictions for people rejecting the operating system

GNU/Linux is 486 in Ireland: 4.86% that is
"Secure Boot" is a Security Problem, Not a Solution: These people don't try to improve security but to undermine security
Don't Talk to Bullies: This serious matter is still being examined by British authorities
Links 18/08/2025: LLM Reputation Damaged, Australia Catches Google Foul Play: Links for the day
Geeks Like GNU/Linux: The technical community seems to be consolidating and rallying around GNU/Linux
End of Reliable Media: it makes the world a worse place, it renders the Web a misinformation machine
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 17, 2025: IRC logs for Sunday, August 17, 2025
GitHub Won't Last Much Longer: Many things at Microsoft are going to go the way of the Skype (or "dodo"). GitHub will be among those.
We've Never Used Large Language Model (LLM): we just never used an LLM
Gemini Links 18/08/2025: Retro and Endless Escape from the WWW: Links for the day
Working Whilst Away From Home: Decades ago being away meant all sorts of problems associated with workflows and connectivity
The Next Version of Windows Will Always be the Best (for Microsoft): It's worse and slower over time
"End of the Smartphone Era" According to Jeffrey Epstein's Key Enabler: They call it "sour grapes"
Microsoft's Windows in Gabon: Still Moving Down: What is this Unknown? Who knows...
Links 17/08/2025: Strike Downs Air Canada, Postmortems of Putin's Red Carpet Summit: Links for the day
Links 17/08/2025: Slow Tools and Enshittification of YouTube: Links for the day
Links 17/08/2025: "The Performance of Power" and "My Undesirable Friends": Links for the day
Growing Our Reach: Our goal was never "hits"
The Russian Vision of Technology: Russia's surveillance is very extensive
Sooner or Later Almost Everyone Will Know "AI" is Just a Go-To, Misused, Misapplied, and Grossly Overused Term of Liars and Con Jobs Who Ride a Ponzi Scheme: At the expense of people gullible enough to "invest" in this or take salaries/bonuses in the form of "stock" (tied to a Ponzi scheme)
The Register MS Has Begun Using Slop Images: It's not clear when it started; but it's definitely getting worse [...] Worst of all are 'articles' about slop that are themselves slop
Reddit Funded by Microsoft: Reddit is merely a filter and we knows who controls that filter (using money)
When It Comes to Technology, Mozilla and Firefox Are Illiberal: Last month in Planet Debian we saw one more person explaining to everyone how to "turn off" DRM in Firefox and hide the pop-up/s
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 16, 2025: IRC logs for Saturday, August 16, 2025
The Open Source Initiative Has Many Scandals, We'll Try to Summarise Them All: Open Source Initiative (OSI) hates facts
Open Source Initiative (OSI), Wikipedia, Molly De Blanc, and Censorship/Reputation Laundering: OSI is like SPLC. The old name remains, the mission changed
Gemini Links 17/08/2025: Misunderstanding "Geminiverse" and Let's Encrypt: Links for the day
Links 17/08/2025: Breaches, Layoffs, and Scams: Links for the day
The Case for Software Freedom in Europe Becomes Stronger as GAFAM and the US Become Allies of Those Who Invade Europe: "One would think that both sides of the pond would be very interested in this valuable commons and work to not just protect it but cultivate it further, rather than work to saw the legs from under it by advancing software patents instead."
Slopwatch: Google News, LinuxSecurity, LinuxBSDos.com, and Garbage From Brian Fagioli: nowadays when people search the Web or when one researches some topic (looking not just for news in Google News) one is increasingly likely to land on a fake 'article' spewed out by some Microsoft LLM
Gemini Links 16/08/2025: Back After Hiatus and News Aggregators in Geminispace: Links for the day
Links 16/08/2025: mRNA Being Abandoned, Putin Plant Flags in Alaska, Faces No Sanctions: Links for the day
Links 16/08/2025: Science Besieged, Confidentiality Standards Breached: Links for the day
Links 16/08/2025: Loners and Vacation, Climate Issues: Links for the day
Links 16/08/2025: Chatbots Bad for Kids, Software Patents Apple Battle: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 15, 2025: IRC logs for Friday, August 15, 2025
Slopwatch: WebProNews and Google News Promoting Fake Articles About "Linux": Google News is being flooded by these slopfarms, so when Linux news is being sought online (via Google News) many people will read bots that spew out FUD
Original European Patent Convention (EPC, 1973), Routinely Violated by the European Patent Office, Now in Geminispace: hundreds of thousands of European Patents must be immediately revoked
Gemini Links 16/08/2025: Politics and Alhena 5.2.8: Links for the day

Billions in Microsoft Bribes to Media/Publishers ('Marketing') Down the Drain

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