Summary: Microsoft uses swine flu and heart disease to market itself

FOR BACKGROUND that is essential, Microsoft is known to be making use of disease as a political tool. For instance, Microsoft uses AIDS to market Windows Vista [1, 2]. A few months ago in Spain, Bill Gates was fighting GNU/Linux under the guise of saving children from disease.

Another troubling observation is that Microsoft has been exploiting kids to advertise Windows here in the UK while at the same time delivering pro-artificial scarcity and patents propaganda at schools.

Microsoft is now exploiting swine flu to make business and control more minds.

"Microsoft offers online tools for Swine Flu infected kids

Microsoft is leveraging this year's most fashionable pandemic to pitch its online storage and document sharing service for Office.

Glyn Moody writes, "opportunistic or what?"

Also in the news we have this article which is titled "Microsoft Xbox 360 used to fight heart disease." PR to the extreme, eh? Never mind if programmers outside Microsoft (who build programs for research) deserve credit; they attribute it to "Microsoft" instead. This headline and coverage across the Internet are totally promotional.

All of this amounts to more of the same pattern of deception, wherein Microsoft elevates disease to characterise itself as benevolent while making more business for itself. There are many other examples that would require more explanation. ⬆

"The fact that there's some e-mail here at MS that says, 'let's go up and beat this guy'...there's nothing wrong with that. That is capitalism at work for consumers."

--Bill Gates on Good Morning America, 11-11-98