Microsoft Pays Ziff Davis to Promote Windows Vista
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2009-04-10 13:32:33 UTC
Modified: 2009-04-10 13:32:33 UTC
Summary: Ziff Davis, a supposedly objective publisher, is publicly promoting Microsoft products for the company's dollars
IT IS NEITHER secret nor news that Ziff Davis is in Microsoft's pocket. We wrote about this a month ago. There are many more examples we could give (e.g. its publication eWeek [1, 2, 3]), but here is a brand new example that a reader sent to us.
See that last line. This is sent as a newsletter to many people and the take-home message is that Windows Vista is a must for security, even though it's provably terrible for security.
It certainly does feel like the slop hype is reaching the "late life crisis" and companies that benefited from this bubble are overdue for a day of reckoning
The Microsoft-sponsored 'FSFE', which violates the terms of use of its name, is causing confusion [...] formally-recognised institutions got tricked into thinking that the Microsoft-sponsored 'FSFE' is the FSF
Unregulated industries will lose their credibility as there is a threat of growing perception that they operate outside the law rather than practice law
Comments
Jose_X
2009-04-10 22:04:55
Oh, Microsoft's.
E.T. can now phone home with a little more privacy.