Bonum Certa Men Certa

Microsoft Turns to Propaganda

Propaganda



Summary: Microsoft hires another spinner in an age of losses and criminal behaviour that necessitates good PR (to avert prosecution)

MICROSOFT is hardly a technology company. It just knows how to knock off technology companies, drive them out of business, and then distort the market and push into it products which it merely acquired. On top of that, Microsoft has become an extortion company which collects patents and starves competitors by means of racketeering and litigation. On top of these despicable activities Microsoft must run a marketing and PR arm, so it hires journalists to engage in mass deception and increasingly reminds us of Bill Gates' propaganda machine, which operates on a budget of around a million dollars per day (just rigging the press, not allocating funds to anything of substance). It's all about deceiving the public while continuing with a rogue agenda that would otherwise make everyone furious.

"It's all about deceiving the public while continuing with a rogue agenda that would otherwise make everyone furious."Gates has been collaborating with Clinton and also sharing the speech writers [1, 2, 3], who help the propaganda campaign. It is a form of celebrity endorsement, for profit of course.

One of our contributors told us about a "[n]ew spinmeister to cover up bad engineers and pathetic managers." He links to this article which says:

Political operative Mark Penn helped Bill and Hillary Clinton; Tony Blair; and Bill Gates. Can he do as much to help Microsoft?


It is all about spin and Microsoft needs more and more of that. MinceR said that "apparently he is indeed stupid enough to work for Microsoft," to which another person replied: "Only the stupid and/or greedy don't know any better." He already provided services to two famous criminals (one is a war criminal).

Recently, Microsoft spinners deceived when Microsoft had announced losses (links to examples omitted intentionally), making it seem as though Microsoft just had record profits (it suffered a loss). Microsoft's MSNBC called it "first quarterly loss ever" even though it is not true, as we explained before [1 2, 3] (Microsoft uses accounting tricks). An internal confession has just been released from a former insider, who reckons that Microsoft is quite doomed:

For me, watching Microsoft for the past 5 years has been a lot like getting on a train, immediately getting off at the next stop, only to watch it explode 5 minutes later. You see, I was a high school intern there back in the summer of 2008, right before my senior year of high school. What I witnessed there I will never forget for the rest of my life, and continue to consider it the gold standard of how to not run a software development company. I live 10 minutes from Microsoft HQ in Redmond, Washington, and ever since I learned how to program I thought I wanted to work there. Until I actually did.

]..]

After graduating high school and just barely being accepted into the UW by some cosmic stroke of luck, I once again applied to the internship program. I halfheartedly requested to be put in something having to do with DirectX or graphics or high-performance computing, but when I stepped into the interview, I was told I'd be working in the Office division. Despite managing to figure out their retarded brain-teaser question which had absolutely nothing to do with how well I coded, I couldn't bring myself to care. Was this incredibly boring, well-paying job what I really wanted?

I lost the position to a close friend, and that was the end of my Microsoft career. I was secretly relieved, and used the opportunity to throw myself at my stupid little 2D graphics engine. By the time applications for college internships were due, I had realized that any sort of normal programming job just wasn't for me. Years later, it become apparent that I had narrowly avoided a catastrophic trainwreck.


Microsoft has been incapable of acquiring talent. In fact, as we showed in recent years, a lot of the talent quit the company. The acquired company which led Microsoft to a major financial loss had its manager quit Microsoft very quickly; that company used a lot of FOSS and Linux before the takeover. We covered all of this before.

"He [Bill Gates] is divisive. He is manipulative. He is a user. He has taken much from me and the industry."

--Gary Kildall

Recent Techrights' Posts

Matthew J. Garrett Behaved in a Similar Fashion to 4Chan and Kiwi Farms
Opposites attract? Are they opposites at all?
Drew DeVault Suggests "CoC Enhancement", Starts Trolling Projects in Microsoft GitHub
And it backfires immediately
What 'Hulk Hogan of UEFI' Could Learn From Jimmy Kimmel About the 'Streisand Effect'
Lawyering up is risky and is usually doesn't work
 
Mass Layoffs in Starbucks... and Society Loses Nothing of Value
Society might even be better off if Starbucks shuts down entirely
Do Your Job and Demand Your Compensation - But in That Order.
We'll do our best to convince the Judge to award all costs to us (lawyers, barrister, LIP bills etc.) plus judgements against them, for abusive litigation and needless suffering associated with that abuse
Like Nazi Germany and Volkswagen
Tell us all about "freedom" when your government runs a Ponzi scheme
Microsoft Sponsored This Man, Microsoft Sponsored His Behaviour (and He Controls Microsoft)
They get what they paid for
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 26, 2025
IRC logs for Friday, September 26, 2025
He Talks Too Much, He Says Dumb Things
only British when that suits him
Slopwatch: FUD and Plagiarism (Working Against Linux) Promoted and Rewarded by Google News
Shame on Google News
Reminder: We're Unloading Some Publications to Tux Machines
About 15 years ago I was struggling to keep up with TechDirt
The E-mail Protocol is for Text
bad netiquette
Gemini Links 26/09/2025: Slop in OpenStreetMap and MOPML (My Own Private Markup Language)
Links for the day
Links 26/09/2025: More Provocations Against NATO by Russia (Near Alaska, USA), Microsoft Booster Accenture Has Mass Layoffs
Links for the day
Links 26/09/2025: Hardware, Security, Health, and Nuclear Armament
Links for the day
Links 26/09/2025: "Digital Fatigue" and Slop Frenzy (Hype) Ruining Work Productivity, Culture, Languages
Links for the day
Brett Wilson LLP Unwilling to Disclose or Explain How 'Hulk Hogan of UEFI' Pays for His SLAPPs Against Us (He Cannot Afford These), So We Are Escalating
Escalated in the British authorities
Linux is Replacing Apple
Apple is money down the drain. Not only are the gadgets overpriced; they cost a lot to maintain and keep going over time
"We don't have that kind of relationship with Microsoft. The only public key that every UEFI firmware is guaranteed to have is Microsoft's, and only Microsoft owns the private key."
This is how to sabotage GNU/Linux distros that Microsoft does not control
Slopwatch: linuxconfig.org, linuxsecurity.com, and Google's Promotion of the Worst and Most Prolific Slopfarms
Over in Google News it has been quite chaotic this past day
Gemini Links 26/09/2025: Reading RSS Feeds, ROOPHLOCH 202
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 25, 2025
IRC logs for Thursday, September 25, 2025
Links 25/09/2025: More European Airports Shut Down Due to What Seems Like Russian Drones
Links for the day
Gemini Links 25/09/2025: Amiga Revived and Hackers (UTF-8)
Links for the day
Purchasing Concert Tickets in 2025 in Manchester: The "Modern" Experience
I recently spent a couple of days here testing the "terrain" in order to better understand how large public venues, for concerts rather than sporting events like football, currently "work"
Links 25/09/2025: French Unions Want Another Strike, Super Typhoon Ragasa Kills Many
Links for the day
Microsoft 'Secure Boot' and Shim as Barrier or Obstacle to New GNU/Linux Users Trying to Escape Microsoft
Just as intended all along
Lovers and Haters
Always beware hate preachers and demagogues (or how they frame issues or whose fault they distract from)
Focusing on What People Have in Common Instead of Killing and Cancelling One Another
Men and women of both "wings" stand to gain a lot by working together on common interests
'Cancel Culture' Isn't About Enforcing Ethics (and It's Done by People on the Right, Not "The Leftists")
Smarter folks would leave social control media
Russia's Attack on Europe (and NATO) Will Worsen Censorship and Corruption in Europe
Can we still debate issues that predate the invasion of Crimea?
Lawyers Should Permanently Lose Their Licence (and Worse) for Using Chatbots in Legal Work
They not only waste people's money and time. They pollute the literature with falsehoods. They commit perjury. [...] Brett Wilson LLP sent the Judge nearly 1,000 pages of material (mostly mine, copied without proper permission) shortly before a short Hearing, which lasted less than an hour
GAFAM and MATA (Mythical, Metaphor) as Explained by analognowhere.com
They're instruments of suppression that sponsor the oppressor
We've Already Mentioned Who Nowadays Funds Garrett's SLAPP Against Us (Not Garrett), Let's Examine Who Sponsored His Litigation Partner (Other Than Microsoft Salaries There's a Buddy of Bill Gates)
it's alleged that the Serial Strangler from Microsoft got money from him
Florian Müller: Using Software Patents to Attack Software Developers, Agitate Against Patent Reform
He also promotes attacks on the German Constitution and laws
Reliance on Typepad Seems to Have Doomed the Voice of Software Patents and Patent Maximalists in PatentDocs
Follow the money
UEFI 'Secure Boot' is Potential Mayhem to the Environment (Older and Leaner Distros Stop Working)
creating new problems, disguised as "solutions" to problems that do not exist
Sometimes 'Cancel Culture' Backfires Badly
There's no such thing as "too much" coverage
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 24, 2025
IRC logs for Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Links 25/09/2025: Jimmy Kimmel Returns to Air (With Limitations) and London Stansted Airport Latest to Have Incident (Fire)
Links for the day
Slopwatch: Fake Articles, SPAM With Slop, and Google News Directs People to Read Slopfarms
why does Google News insist on still linking to prolific slopfarms?
Gemini Links 25/09/2025: New Game for Gemini Protocol, Eleven, and Network Solutions Woes
Links for the day