> I'm not missing any point. You need to recalibrate. You are too > accustomed to fawning stories in fanzines and propaganda produced by MS > itself. You get all hyped up when you read something that is even- > handed and contains good analysis of what MS is up to. When the Times' > Pogue or the Post's Pegoraro write reviews they certainly do write in > this insightful way
As my kids would say, SRSLY? These quotes are not at all the same as what I'm talking about. They are talking about their own experiences and the problems they saw. That's fine. That's what you're supposed to do in a review. What they do NOT do is ascribe any meanings and motivations to what MS is doing. There are no equivalents to herding customers, assigning release numbers that will impress downloaders, offering public betas so that early adopters will talk it up, or leveraging monopoly positions to prevent competition. They are simply describing what THEY experienced and what THEY thought about it. That is not remotely comparable to what I'm talking about. When you say, "You get all hyped up when you read something that is even-handed and contains good analysis of what MS is up to", that's just wrong. You'll note that I have not complained about the review at all, other than to point out the two errors of fact. He's entitled to his opinions--a number of which I happen to agree with--and even to his guesses. He's entitled to write about them however he wants. I don't have any problems with the review. No, what bothers me is your insistence that this review is unbiased and even-handed, and that you give totally different treatment to positive and negative reviews (negative reviews: honest; positive reviews: suspicious). And now you think legitimate criticism based on actual experience is no different from "Microsoft has to herd users to Windows 7". ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
