____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 08 August 2007 16:19 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 08 August 2007 11:36 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> Reverse-Halloween: The Marketing Checkbox Strategy
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| Getting Microsoft software licences OSI-approved and similarly getting
>>>>| Microsoft's proprietary document formats approved at ISO are like
>>>>| painting an old Chevrolet.
>>>>|
>>>>| [...]
>>>>|
>>>>| This may be enough to satisfy the enterprise customer that he is
>>>>| achieving something different. Clearly, the substance is no different:
>>>>| it's a lock-in in sheep's clothing.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/08/the-marketing-c.html
>>>
>>> Excellent - the world is truly waking up to what this is all about.
>>> It's quite interesting that online journalism is massively outstripping
>>> traditional news organs in highlighting and publicising these issues.
>>
>> I wouldn't worry. Journalism (as it used to be) is dying. Mary Jo Foley left
>> Microsoft Watch because of this. She said blogged is the future and went
>> over to ZDNet after decades of journalism.
>>
>
> Maybe she's right, at that. It does seem to be in the ascendancy at the
> moment, though.
That must be the reason O'Ghara and Lyons envy PJ so much. And hey! What do you
know. Lyons blogged for about a year instead of editing a high-class
sellout... errr... I mean, publication (and a Microsoft portfolio).
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