>> I may as well say at the outset that this piece was done essentially at the invitation (but not direction) of Microsoft... Bad habits die hard. Reminds me

>> I may as well say at the outset that this piece was done essentially at the invitation (but not direction) of Microsoft... Bad habits die hard. Reminds me of the good old days we were fighting Microsoft in Israel, where the local marketing team would prep journalists (one especially made a career out of it) in its offices, who would later publish articles explaining why Linux is so bad for you and why it has no future. The good old “get the facts” campaign and such.