IT HAS been almost a year since Waggener Edstrom gave Vista 7 laptops to people who were fond of Microsoft. The intention was to generate positive coverage and set the tone for future debates about this incarnation of Windows Vista.
“The intention was to generate positive coverage and set the tone for future debates about this incarnation of Windows Vista.”The Register has just published this article from Tim Anderson, which is no faint praise of Microsoft's next operating system that Anderson was granted access to ahead of everyone. One of our readers called it a "puff piece on Windows 7 Snow Leopard."
"Is the delay with Windows 7 anything to do with it being a buggy first version," asks this reader. "The whole tone of this advert er... article smacks of nothing but me-too-ism. The not-out-yet Windows 7 is as good-as Snow Leopard and if W7 doesn't impress then blame the OEMs... there... didn't take as long to say..."
To quote from this article/advert:
"Windows works better when properly managed, which is why a skilled business user gets a better experience than the hapless crapware-laden consumer"
"Yet more blame the OEMs/endusers waffle... shame on you El Reg," remarks the reader, who is a long time follower of The Register.
Anderson continues:
"Malware is also a factor, since Windows is by far the most popular target"
The translation of this, argues our reader, is that "Malware isn't caused by any intrinsic defects in the Operating System."
"Could have been piped in directly from Redmond," he adds. "Why not just label this whole thing ADVERTISING?"
The whole thing makes The Register somewhat self contradictory. Yesterday from The Register: "MS warns of forced Messenger update"
Microsoft has outlined plans to push a mandatory Windows Live Messenger upgrade in order to plug a security hole related to a vulnerable code library.
Microsoft is butting heads with a company that provides software for database security over a weakness in SQL Server that can expose user passwords to anyone with administrative access to the program.
It seems local government in the UK still has not learned how to maintain effective IT security or to control the costs when things go wrong. A story published today (3rd of September) in the Evening Standard newspaper reveals that the true cost of a crippling infection of Tory run Ealing Council's IT systems which occurred back in May, is only now starting to emerge.
In a way, the easiest ones to deal with are those that have 'Evangelist' printed on their business cards. They're being paid by someone to persuade others of the folly of their ways. You'll find these folk in many major IT companies. Others are not so obvious. Perhaps a company has plied them with gifts or other, more subtle, bribes. Recently I was talking with a Toyota (non-employee) iQ evangelist. Turns out she'd 'won' the car for a six month trial, in exchange for blogs and other social media outreach. Others are just total believers in 'the cause' simply because it makes sense to them within their own frame of reference.
“They are stupid enough just to mention that "GMail was down" without further investigation.”
--Tony MancoOne of our contributors, Tony Manco, said today: "I'm tired of reading s**t from these "pseudo-journalists" repeating the same bulls**t over and over again about GMail. They are stupid enough just to mention that "GMail was down" without further investigation. Only the web interface was down, IMAP and POP where always online... why do these "pseudo-journalists" insist that GMail is only the Web interface?"
We wrote about this before [1, 2] because whenever there is a small Google glitch, enormous coverage in the press is to be expected. The same standards are not being applied to other companies and this is quite likely part of the FUD against SaaS in general. ⬆
"Two security researchers have developed a new technique that essentially bypasses all of the memory protection safeguards in the Windows Vista operating system..."
--Dennis Fisher, August 7th, 2008
--Source
Comments
Will
2009-09-04 13:13:13
If Bing were to go down for an hour or two, who would notice?
And if an Exchange server were to go down for an hour or two, how is that news? That's just weekly routine.
Roy Schestowitz
2009-09-04 13:18:28