[Am-info] MS and Innovation (_Wired_)

[Dan Strychalski]

Steve Cohen (stevecoh@my-Deja.com) wrote --

> HMM.  About a month ago I posted a particularly clueless article
> from the Washington Post where the author, after an interview
> with Ballmer, claimed that XML was invented by "two technologists
> at Microsoft." I assumed that the author may have misunderstood -
> that even Ballmer wouldn't lie that baldfacedly.
>
> Now I'm not so sure...

Well, I gave those running M'soft the benefit of the doubt for ten
years, so I can hardly fault you here. I would note that it's been a
while since I had any doubt to give any of them the benefit of....

Gates, Ballmer, _et al._ seem to figure that any lie is OK as long as
less than fifty percent of their audience have the background to see
through it.

Hey, Windows was a lie from the start. Heck, the lying started _before_
Windows....

Dan