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"It’s even more telling that Microsoft hired a firm, ContextIS, to create this bogus FUD so they’d have someone to hide behind. It’s pretty convenient that only

"It’s even more telling that Microsoft hired a firm, ContextIS, to create this bogus FUD so they’d have someone to hide behind. It’s pretty convenient that only a few minutes after ContextIS’s latest post Microsoft already had a well manicured response. If ContextIS had any credibility they’d be posting about the same issues on Silverlight5 (warning: might crash your machine), Flash 11 and Unity3D. " I always wondered about those IDC and Gartner predictions that WP7 will become #2 mobile OS by 2015, when it can't even get past 2% right now and its growth is slowing down. How did they get those numbers all of the sudden, when they couldn't even predict half of Android's growth when Android was actually growing fast. So that seemed very fishy to me at the time. If Microsoft is paying companies to do this kind of "publicity" that favors them, then I wouldn't be surprised if they are behind those so called predictions either.

bad_user 15y ago
Microsoft is known to hire other companies for such things, but they aren't really hiding it. And I am sure that the ContextIS report is accurate and that WebGL represents a security risk, but TFA is also right - if WebGL is a security risk, than so are Silverlight 5 and Flash and Java applets, which are and will be everywhere anyway. But because WebGL will get multiple competing implementations and everything is in public review, I'm also sure that it will be just better than the various other browser plugins that allow access to the GPU. The only problem with this picture would be IExplorer, since it has such awful upgrade cycles, that's why I'm kind of hoping they won't implement WebGL instead of coming up with something half-baked that ruins the experience for everybody. I also couldn't care less about Gartner and IDC predictions: they never predicted anything worthwhile anyway. But WP7 will be popular. Maybe less than both Android and iOS, but popular nonetheless.
- rbanffy 15y ago
  > but they aren't really hiding it. That's not exactly true. I never saw a Microsoft press release clearly stating they funded a report they are referring to. They usually read like "$firm has published a study showing $product destined to dominate" or something like it.
ssp 15y ago
I always wondered about those IDC and Gartner predictions ... Here is an entertaining flame about the analysts: http://crankypm.com/2006/08/streetwalkers-in-disguise/ http://crankypm.com/2006/08/streetwalkers-in-disguise/
yuhong 15y ago
Yea, when I was reading Techrights I read a lot of their articles about this, and they had internal emails from anti-trust exhibits to prove it.

bad_user 15y ago

Microsoft is known to hire other companies for such things, but they aren't really hiding it. And I am sure that the ContextIS report is accurate and that WebGL represents a security risk, but TFA is also right - if WebGL is a security risk, than so are Silverlight 5 and Flash and Java applets, which are and will be everywhere anyway. But because WebGL will get multiple competing implementations and everything is in public review, I'm also sure that it will be just better than the various other browser plugins that allow access to the GPU. The only problem with this picture would be IExplorer, since it has such awful upgrade cycles, that's why I'm kind of hoping they won't implement WebGL instead of coming up with something half-baked that ruins the experience for everybody. I also couldn't care less about Gartner and IDC predictions: they never predicted anything worthwhile anyway. But WP7 will be popular. Maybe less than both Android and iOS, but popular nonetheless.

rbanffy 15y ago
> but they aren't really hiding it. That's not exactly true. I never saw a Microsoft press release clearly stating they funded a report they are referring to. They usually read like "$firm has published a study showing $product destined to dominate" or something like it.

ssp 15y ago

I always wondered about those IDC and Gartner predictions ... Here is an entertaining flame about the analysts: http://crankypm.com/2006/08/streetwalkers-in-disguise/ http://crankypm.com/2006/08/streetwalkers-in-disguise/

yuhong 15y ago

Yea, when I was reading Techrights I read a lot of their articles about this, and they had internal emails from anti-trust exhibits to prove it.