New US Editor for The Register is a Microsoft Booster
"Avram Piltch has served as US editor for The Register since July 2025."
What would you think if 75% of an editor's work in The Register was pro-Microsoft, pro-Windows trash?
To avoid rude words like "infiltrator" or "mole" let's just say... dubious.
So The Register has a new "US editor" - whatever that means. They already had an editor and I spoke a lot to him. He assured me they were not selling out.
Consider the output of their "US editor". Well, his first article was Vista 11 advocacy, the second was "CoPilot", i.e. an utter failure, and this is his fourth: (only hours ago)
Well, trying to call Windows "Linux" is an actual attack on GNU/Linux. Did they get themselves another Microsoft Gavin (or Microsoft Tim) but in a more senior position? "How to host a Linux-powered local dev site in Windows" means, "don't leave Windows, let Microsoft be in control of everything!"
Readers told us about this. They're not happy. Instead of The Register adding another "Liam" it looks like they've added a Microsofter as an actual editor, coming from a Windows-centric site. Whose idea was this? No vetting?
Meanwhile we also see this nonsensical spin in Security Week: "Organizations Warned of Interlock Ransomware Attacks" (as usual, ransomware is a Windows issue, no matter what LLM slop 'claims')
As a reader put it, "this is all PowerShell, Microsoft Edge, and other Windows tools... yet they tack on "... and Linux"" (as usual!).
This is the "WSL" mindset. Microsoft is Linux, Linux is Microsoft.
You're stuck with Microsoft. Stay with Microsoft.
Only a day earlier this site helped spin Microsoft's SharePoint woes as Microsoft being the victim and also an expert at security (blaming "China").
In case it's not obvious, "It's Time to Dump SharePoint and Here's What to Use Instead":
We'll talk more about it in our next article. █