Very positive article on MSFT. Ok bears, poke holes in this one.
thestreet.com;
Who, me? Okay, I'll bite.
MSFT is shelling out half a billion dollars to cram XP down our throats. They are buying first-class plane tickets and fancy dinners for guys like this Jim Seymour. Then they're taking them on the VIP tour of Microsoft's Inner Sanctum and preaching the Microsoft Word.
Did you notice that it's only after quoting Microsoft's "Please Buy XP, It Sucks Less" slide show, practically verbatim, that Seymour happens to mention his "trip to the Redmond campus?"
I'll bet that was a nice trip. If they can do nothing else well, Microsoft DOES throw a lavish party, complete with real live billionaires. And if you are invited on one of these trips in order to Preach the Word, you'd damn well better tell it right, because if you happen to mention that there's a recession coming and that IT departments won't start thawing their budgets until 2003, or that XBox is going to lose money this year, or that AT&T finally unilaterally cancelled Microsoft's five-billion dollar Interactive TV initiative, or that nobody cares about XP, or that MSN loses money, well, let's just say you don't get invited again. Forget about what happens to your job at PC Magazine.
This isn't reporting; it's a press release.
Dave |
