Comments on: Never Underestimate Microsoft's Ability to Turn a Corner http://voices.allthingsd.com/20081103/never-underestimate-microsofts-ability-to-turn-a-corner/ from other Web sites Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:42:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sam Harrison http://voices.allthingsd.com/20081103/never-underestimate-microsofts-ability-to-turn-a-corner/comment-page-1/#comment-855 Sam Harrison Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:04:13 +0000 http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=5606#comment-855 hey scoble, you worked for microsoft for years so cut the garbage about its new products: azure and windows 7 these are yet 2 more copy cats from the copy cat empire hey scoble, you worked for microsoft for years

so cut the garbage about its new products: azure and windows 7

these are yet 2 more copy cats from the copy cat empire

]]> By: Mac Beach http://voices.allthingsd.com/20081103/never-underestimate-microsofts-ability-to-turn-a-corner/comment-page-1/#comment-854 Mac Beach Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:34:58 +0000 http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=5606#comment-854 The question has been asked: were they lent laptops or given them? They did the same stunt to gen up a lot of good publicity for Vista. Slowly but surely the public loses trust in journalists that can be so easily bought off with trinkets. These days I want to see the resume of any journalist making technical recommendations. What were they before they got into journalism? An orchestra leader? An event organizer? PR flak for a company? There are very few people doing this for a living who have an actual technical background. Microsoft knows this and takes advantage of it. Nothing really new about that. Companies that want to get it right had better be doing their own product comparisons. The question has been asked: were they lent laptops or given them?

They did the same stunt to gen up a lot of good publicity for Vista.

Slowly but surely the public loses trust in journalists that can be so easily bought off with trinkets.

These days I want to see the resume of any journalist making technical recommendations. What were they before they got into journalism? An orchestra leader? An event organizer? PR flak for a company?

There are very few people doing this for a living who have an actual technical background. Microsoft knows this and takes advantage of it. Nothing really new about that.

Companies that want to get it right had better be doing their own product comparisons.

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