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Microsoft's interop road show
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| Paoli indirectly responded to recent criticism that Microsoft was engaged in
| a FUD campaign against ODF (I forgot what the criticism was exactly) by
| pointing out that Office 2007 adds support for the format, and that Microsoft
| has included ODF in its developers' tooling and plug fests.
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http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2009/06/24/Microsofts-interop-road-show.aspx
Liar.
Microsoft has been engaged in FUD against ODF all along. The examples are well
documented and it continues to this date.
Note how Microsoft apparently bribes reporters with lunch. It used to be free
flights to Seattle/Redmond.
Related:
Going to OOXML great lengths
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| We landed directly at the Seattle-Tacoma airport to attend a press briefing
| by software giant Microsoft, in the nearby cities of Kirkland and Redmond.
|
| Why am I telling you this? Well, I'd like to think that Microsoft is going
| out of its way to reach out to technology journalists from the far corners of
| the world, to argue its case in what has become a very contentious issue in
| the IT industry.
|
| [...]
|
| The Philippines is one of the countries that voted "no", which partly
| explains why we were invited to attend the press briefing.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/blog/pinoypost/0,3800005677,63001918,00.htm
INQhack survives Vistability test in Volesville
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| The Vole (Microsoft) supposedly invited The INQ over for tea because
| we are notorious "Microsoft doubters" - and we were accompanied by
| other supposed Vole doubters such as the folk from lifehacker and
| a very nice man from Slashdot, as well as some Microsoft MvPs.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36312
Microsoft desperately wants my love -- and yours
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| I spent December seventh, eighth, and ninth in Seattle as Microsoft's
| guest. Microsoft flew me there from Florida at its expense, put me up
| in a nice hotel, provided decent food, and comped me and four other
| invitees to this "special conference" with presentations about the
| marvels of Vista and other recent or upcoming Microsoft products. They
| didn't quite play the old Beatles song "Love Me Do" in the background,
| but it was the event's unstated theme.
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http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/12/12/085222
Bribing Bloggers
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| This is the most frustrating thing about the practice of giving
| bloggers free stuff: it pisses in the well, reducing the credibility
| of all blogs. I'm upset that people trust me less because of the
| behavior of other bloggers. Don't even get me started about PayPerPost.
|
| [...]
|
| Do not, under any circumstances, consider upgrading an XP system to
| Vista... even if it's fairly new and even if it's Vista Supremo
| Premium Ultra-Capable.
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http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/12/28.html
Microsoft's Laptop Giveaway Becoming PR Disaster?
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| This thing is starting to feel like a PR disaster. Bloggers are
| starting to smell blood and this thing very well may begin to
| turn into yet another episode of bloggers gone wild.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061228/23174_id.html?.v=1
Bribing Bloggers
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| It's a bribe. Period. You say nice things about us, you get nice
| things from us. Heck, just say neutral things about us-we'll give
| you a killer new laptop and we know that you'll be inclined to say
| better things about us.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2077596,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
Getting a Vaio [with Vista, from Microsoft, even in March 2007]
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| Microsoft Belgium rang me yesterday (I don?t think they realised it
| was a public holiday here!).
|
| [...]
|
| The phone call yesterday was to confirm my address - the laptop (a
| Sony Vaio - dunno which model or spec yet) is en route with Vista
| Ultimate and Office Ultimate pre-installed.
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http://www.tomrafteryit.net/getting-a-vaio/
Living with Vista, one year on
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| To be honest, MS did try to engage me after I wrote that, but the sad thing
| is it was through bribery. I don't use that word lightly, but there is
| nothing else I can call it. I think I explained my differences of opinion
| quite clearly in that article, and the response I got from MS was as follows,
| names removed to protect the sender.
|
| -----------------------------------------------
|
| Hi Charlie,
|
| I'm really sorry to hear of your bad impression of Windows Vista, I would be
| very interested in having a chat with you to dispell some of your worries,
| and to provide you with your first contact at Microsoft!
|
| I've got a copy of Windows Vista here for you as well if you want to have a
| go with the real deal RTM build!
|
| (signature)
|
| ----------------------------------------------------
|
| Please note that in the original complaint, I never once asked for a copy of
| the software, I had several versions here, and my complaints were about
| activation, DRM and other problems. A copy with all those problems is still
| as unacceptable as the ones I owned. In the following half dozen emails, my
| concerns were not placated, if anything they were confirmed.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/30/vista-later
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