[Am-info] Reasonably good summaries on MS

[Erick Andrews]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:03:42 +0000, John Poltorak wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 04:55:14PM -0500, Erick Andrews wrote:
>> From my favorite Xword puzzle site, The Guardian
>> has insight with some of its summaries about MS.
>> 
>> It's mostly all here:
>> 
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/microsoft/0,2759,178712,00.html
>> 
>> MS is spending about $500million on marketing in 
>> Europe just for Xbox!
>> 
>> Still, I'll take their Xwords, thank you very much, yet The 
>> Guardian has better "journalism" than most of late.
>
>I stopped reading the Guardian weekly computer section years ago. The 
>Computer Editor is/was Jack Schofield - one of the biggest Microsoft 
>pushers I have ever come across. He got me so mad at times simply 
>regurgitating Microsoft propaganda as journalism. The worst thing about 
>his poison was that he has a position of authority in a quality newspaper 
>so many people would have been influenced by his sales spiel.
>
>I still have cuttings of some of his articles from 10 years ago.

Thanks, and noted.

-- 
Erick