Verily I say unto thee, that Phil Da Lick! spake thusly:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Open source fanciers finger Beeb's Win 7 'sales presentation'
[...]
> Not surprising. MSBBC's coverage of the azure anouncement was nothing
> more than a sales pitch for MS's platform.
Did you see the blatant half-hour advert the MSBBC ran for Vista?
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/02/03/beeb-slammed-for-fawning-to-bill-gates
Here's a taste, courtesy of Max Flint of the MSBBC:
[quote]
Tonight on The Money Programme, I'm on my way to the launch of one of
the world's biggest products...
[/quote]
Eh?
No1: How does he know it's "one of the world's biggest products" if it
hasn't even been launched yet? I mean this is the most obvious case
of wishful thinking (IOW /bias/) I've ever seen at the MSBBC.
No2: A POS sequel to a POS operating system from a POS American company
run by gangsters, is "one of the world's biggest products"?
Bullshit.
The fist ever car, or the first ever toaster, or frankly the first ever
*anything* might be said to be worthy of such fawning, but ... *Vista*?
That huge; bloated; maggot-infested; putrid turd of an OS is "one of the
world's biggest products" ... amazingly, before it's even been launched?
The stench of corruption is overpowering.
[quote]
It'll generate billions in sales, and pretty soon most of us will be
using it.
[/quote]
Oh we will, will we?
How bloody arrogant; blatantly biased; and as it turns out ... wrong. He
might just as well have said "As a Microsoft business partner, the MSBBC
sincerely *hopes* that Vista will generate billions in sales, and pretty
soon most of us will be using it."
Then there's this little nugget at the end:
[quote]
But Microsoft doesn't need to worry too much if people are put off by
the cost of an upgrade. Vista will be pre-installed on almost all new
computers, so they'll get the big sales anyway.
That's the genius of Bill Gates' business.
[/quote]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6340000/newsid_6348300/6348391.stm
Excuse me while I puke.
Yeah, a gangster running a racketeering operation is pure "genius", so
says the MSBBC ... of course.
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K.
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