RedMonk: September the Month of the Mouth of Redmond (Still)
Published yesterday: (the usual storyline, i.e. what's not controlled by Microsoft's proprietary GitHub simply does not exist)
Old: Microsoft: Bribing [RedMonk] With Both Hands
They're pay-to-say basically:
Further down the page:
“Analysts sell out - that’s their business model… But they are very concerned that they never look like they are selling out, so that makes them very prickly to work with.”
-Microsoft, internal document [PDF]