* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
> ____/ Linonut on Monday 08 September 2008 11:32 : \____
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>> * nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>>> <Quote>
>>> "It's an end run around Windows," says Rob Enderle, president of
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> *LOL*
>
> So now he's a _PRESIDENT_ of a one-man group. He seems to have promoted
> himself. [Sheesh. Voices in the head /]
>
>> Wow, Enderle said that?
>
> Some things are so broken that you just can't lie about them. A friend told me
> about a strategy Microsoft has used for many years: it tries hard to convince
> people that 'other' things suck_ equally_ (there's a good name for this
> strategy, which I can't recall*), so they essentially try to convince people
> never to explore alternatives. This means that using SCO, vapourware and
> Munchkins works better for them than actually improved development.
This one's funny:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/09/08/paul-thurrott-calls-apple-â??the-bad-guysâ??-of-microsofts-300-million-ads/
Not sure if the link will work for you, looks like some jerk put UTF-8
in the URL!
Anyway:
Thurrott was commenting on an email from Microsoft's senior
vice president Bill Veghte to the company's employees,
introducing its new $300 million ad campaign to "reintroduce
Microsoft to viewers."
<chuckle>
"I'm glad Microsoft is finally telling its own story,"
Thurrott wrote. "The bad guys have owned this conversation for
too long."
<laugh>
Was Thurrott addressing the US Department of Justice, who convinced
the US District Court to convict Microsoft as a monopolist
obstructing competition? Was he defending Microsoft from "bad
guy" complaints raised by a number of US states which
successfully presented a case that the company was cheating
customers? Were the "bad guys" European Union regulators who
insisted Microsoft not use Windows as a way to force PC makers to
bundle Windows Media Player? Or how about Iowa, which sued Microsoft
for falsely advertising that PCs that could not really not run Vista
were "Vista capable"?
No, the "bad guys" were Apple and its users, which Thurrott
also referred to as the "iCabal."
<belly laugh>
Here's one that's a page right out of the COLA-Troll's mouths:
Thurrott is attacking Apple and Mac users ("They're bad
people," he wrote, "They're people who lie and lie
and lie, and the fanatics just suck it up.")
. . .
The real secret behind-the-scenes maneuvering in the tech world comes
from Microsoft, which has ghost written a blizzard of white papers
and surveys that attempt to point out that users are simply wrong and
that Vista's problems are the fault of those pointing them out, and
that free software costs more than expensive software, and that Vista
PCs with a reduced security crisis are less vulnerable than Macs with
no security crisis.
<Litany of Microsoft fakery snipped>
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