NT Lies.
via ZDNet
>What is it about the computer industry that compels people to
stretch the truth past the breaking point? Every week we dig
through a pile of press releases, news clippings, white papers,
and reviewer's guides, most of them filled with rumors,
half-truths, exaggerations, false conclusions, tap dancing, and
spin that's gone completely out of control. Not to mention
outright whoppers.
This year, for the third straight year, we've gathered a
collection of the ten most popular lies about the trendiest
technology. In 1995 it was no trouble to round up ten lies about
Windows 95. Last year we focused on the Internet. This year we set
our sights on Microsoft Windows NT. Why NT? After Microsoft tacked
the Windows 95 shell onto NT, it was suddenly the hottest software
around, and when you're hot, people talk. But the trouble with NT
is its enormous complexity, which makes it hard to craft a simple
marketing message. That means Microsoft occasionally
oversimplifies issues and smooths over the rough edges in NT. And
Microsoft bashers can have a field day using technical trivia to
reach unwarranted conclusions.
Just once, we'd like to read a press release that didn't sound
like an outtake from Jim Carrey's Liar Liar. Somehow we don't
think that's going to happen anytime soon, though. Want to know
what's really going on with Windows NT? We've got the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth.<
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