● 12.15.08

●● More on the Microsoft-IDG/IDC Connection

Posted in Deception, Finance, GNU/Linux, Microsoft at 6:16 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

List of publications affected: InfoWorld, CIO, ComputerWorld, CSO, Demo, GamePro, Games.net, IDG Connect, IDG World Expo, Industry Standard, IT World, JavaWorld, LinuxWorld, MacUser, Macworld, Network World, PC World, Playlist, and many more.

We wrote about this a couple of months ago, if only just to warn that Microsoft is paying a very large media company that earned the name ‘Wintel press’ (among others). Here is another little nugget of information.

paying a very large media company

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> [W]hen Microsoft hires somebody like IDG to prove that Linux is less effective than Windows it’s easy to separate argument from arguers – and when the consultants prove their case by hiring the least competent MCSEs they can find and turning them loose with the Linux root password and instructions to “tune” for a couple of days before running the test, you can laugh at the results while admiring the realism – because this, after all, pretty much what happens when the Boss says “Linux” but IT wants Windows.

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It’s important to remember which hands are feeding IDG and which publications are affected by this (partial list at the top applies only to IDG). █

which publications are affected by this

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