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Bleh. I tend towards viewing MS as truly evil too, but that site is a bad example to offer. I clicked through expecting to find a factual chronicle of corporate

Bleh. I tend towards viewing MS as truly evil too, but that site is a bad example to offer. I clicked through expecting to find a factual chronicle of corporate foul play, and instead just found a bunch of uninformed opinion-spouting combined with poorly veiled Apple fanaticism. Nothing turns me off faster than someone who can't be a little reserved in their allegiances.

shiranaihito 17y ago
Uninformed opinion-spouting? Well, what makes you so sure you're not engaging in some yourself? What if all he's saying about MS is true? The guy seems to be really well informed. He's definitely pro-Apple though, I'll give you that, but he's really insightful too. There was another site I happened to see through HN that kept a good chronicle of MS's evil, but I didn't save a bookmark so I had to go with RoughlyDrafted. Sorry! :p
- youngian 17y ago
  The fourth headline down, "Windows 7 so great Microsoft is giving it away for free," was the last straw for me. It's a release candidate. There's nothing new about MS giving their early betas and RCs away for free, and in fact it's one of the few areas where I feel they don't totally bungle the process of making and supporting software. To twist that into "look how bad windows 7 is gonna be lol" is obnoxious and disingenuous.
  - shiranaihito 17y ago
    Yes, he got a little carried away in that article. I didn't really like it either. But besides his own conjecture, without which there wouldn't be much left of an article, did he say anything that's not true? What were the earlier straws, by the way? If you just dig around a bit, I'm sure you'll find quite a few really enjoyable and insightful articles on the site. To twist that into "look how bad windows 7 is gonna be lol" is obnoxious and disingenuous. I thought he was just pointing out how MS is worried, and wants to increase W7's adoption by giving the RC away. There's also been some speculation about whether it's actually the finished W7 just dubbed an RC because giving away the finished product would look far too desperate. Unfortunately, I've seen a lot of excitement over W7, so it looks like MS will have a successful Windows on their hands again.

shiranaihito 17y ago

Uninformed opinion-spouting? Well, what makes you so sure you're not engaging in some yourself? What if all he's saying about MS is true? The guy seems to be really well informed. He's definitely pro-Apple though, I'll give you that, but he's really insightful too. There was another site I happened to see through HN that kept a good chronicle of MS's evil, but I didn't save a bookmark so I had to go with RoughlyDrafted. Sorry! :p

youngian 17y ago
The fourth headline down, "Windows 7 so great Microsoft is giving it away for free," was the last straw for me. It's a release candidate. There's nothing new about MS giving their early betas and RCs away for free, and in fact it's one of the few areas where I feel they don't totally bungle the process of making and supporting software. To twist that into "look how bad windows 7 is gonna be lol" is obnoxious and disingenuous.
- shiranaihito 17y ago
  Yes, he got a little carried away in that article. I didn't really like it either. But besides his own conjecture, without which there wouldn't be much left of an article, did he say anything that's not true? What were the earlier straws, by the way? If you just dig around a bit, I'm sure you'll find quite a few really enjoyable and insightful articles on the site. To twist that into "look how bad windows 7 is gonna be lol" is obnoxious and disingenuous. I thought he was just pointing out how MS is worried, and wants to increase W7's adoption by giving the RC away. There's also been some speculation about whether it's actually the finished W7 just dubbed an RC because giving away the finished product would look far too desperate. Unfortunately, I've seen a lot of excitement over W7, so it looks like MS will have a successful Windows on their hands again.