[News] Microsoft Flip-flops on Laptops They Gave to 90 A-list Bloggers

[Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wait, bloggers can keep the free laptops after all: Microsoft

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| It's like playing peek-a-boo with a child: now Microsoft wants to
| give you a laptop. Now it doesn't. Now it does.
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http://apcmag.com/4895/wait_bloggers_can_keep_the_free_laptops_after_all_microsoft

"Here's a laptop. Write something nice."

H-P had a similar strategy for affecting journalists. Microsoft thinks that
the "blogger" status makes it OK.

        [ HP told WSJ to, 'Go say nice things' ]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/03/wsj_tam_hp/