Wow, where to begin? The best evidence of information suppression comes from technical sleuth and court testimony that is old by necessity. Almost everything Microsoft says about itself is a lie designed to convice people that they should trust all of their personal information to Microsoft's care and control. This is not normal advertising, of the Coke variety which is designed to raise awareness and positive associations about a product. No, Microsoft goes the extra mile to smear other companies and perceived "competitors". They spend billions on this alone. The malice goes beyond words, though. In the past, they have broken software from other vendors and lied about it in online forums. That is information suppression and it's precisely the kind of thing Google gets around.
You only have to look at their current home page for a mild examples of gross exaggeration and smear. For their "Plays for Sure" music campain, they say "More Music, More Choices". That's a funny thing to say about music formats that only play on Microsoft platforms. It also implies negative and untrue things about their nearest "competitor" in DRM crippled music. It's one thing to say you are better than your competitors and not be able to deliver on your promisses but another to cause the problems in the first place then blame your competitor. They did just that to DRDos, and it was proven in court. See here for more: http://www.kickassgear.com/Articles/Microsoft.htm It happened ten years ago, but that's how long it takes to prove things in court. They not only broke their competitor's software but orchestrated a PR campaign online to blame Digital Research for the problems they made. It also proves that the "Barkto Incident" was not an abberation: http://www.pjprimer.com/jihad.html This happened around the roll out of Windoze 95. They paid people to go on line and say bad things about OS/2 without revealing they worked for Microsoft. Put the two together and you have a company that pays people to break software, lie about who's at fault and lie about other software in general. That should be enough to convice anyone that microsoft lies and tries to suppres the truth about their buggy junk.. They do so by flooding influential people with misinformation at critical times. The same people do the same things and the effort continues, we can be sure. In blogs: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/02/1716251&tid=109&tid=149&tid=201 At Universities, they had M$ "Ambassadors" They make up silly stories about how sucky Apple is: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/10/15/0044255.shtml?tid=109 They continue to make up stories about how bad Linux is: http://slashdot.org/features/99/04/23/1316228.shtml We all know that free software and Linux are the new targets of Microsoft scorn. We are all dreadfully familiar with the "Get the Facts" campaign, the SCO extortion attempt, and "think tanks" like the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution. With all this effort and money going into calling free software unconstitutional, communist, terrorist supporting, expensive, difficult, buggy, do you really think they want people to find the truth with a quick little google search? Google busts M$ BS directly and indirectly. Because Google rates sites by merit. Microsoft can blast the same message out in dozens of Wintel rags, hundreds of robot written blogs and thousands of botnet forum posts, but the truth about anything will float to the top of a Google search. That's a direct bust. The indirect bust is what I just engaged in. Google has given me a much better memory for events than I'd have without Google. It's easy to look back and discover patterns of behavior which should be projected into the present. Once again, I'm getting ahead of myself. Today, I wanted to prove that Microsoft lies and suppresses correct information through Astroturf. Am I loopy? What mistakes have I made above? Tomorrow or the next day, I'll look more into how Google breaks this behavior and how Microsoft hates that. On Saturday 01 October 2005 04:12 pm, Will Hill wrote: > The first proof is that Microsoft wants, and has, suppressed negative > information about itself. ?That's easy because there's a long trail of > Astroturf out there and Microsoft spends lots of money on disinformation. ?
