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, Thu, 3 Nov 2011 15:14:56
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Read the article without a bias.
Without making this post way to long (since the article invites dissection of the writer's obvious bias on almost a line by line basis) let's concentrate on the part about HP.
Here's what the writer says "The spokesperson confirmed for me that HP has no plans to participate in any conspiracy against a non-Windows OS". Really? That sounds very definitive. Except then we move to what HP really said, it was a fluff statement from the HP marketing department with absolutely no specifics "HP will continue to offer its customers a choice of operating systems. We are working with industry partners to evaluate the options that will best serve our customers.".
The writer's statement goes far beyond what HP said and he uses words like "conspiracy" and "confirmed" with very specific intent. All HP did was issue a standard marketing statement response that allows them to do whatever they want without an conflict with that statement in the future.
The entire article is constructed in this same biased way: it doesn't present facts and evaluate them, which is what most of us would prefer and the more inquisitive of us rely on. Instead, it takes facts and presents them with the writer's emphasis, twist, and bias in order to convince us of his view point. This writing style is very obvious - I know, I get paid to do it quite often. It works, but it's not a fact presentation, it's an editorial. It adds no more to the discussion than we previously had (and the intentions of MS remain the same, regardless of the push-back they are now seeing).
PS. I'm not a linux fan, and I use Windows. I've even worked "inside" with MS. That doesn't stop me from objectively evaluating what they are trying to do here (regardless of whether they are successful.
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, Thu, 3 Nov 2011 11:13:22, Thu, 3 Nov 2011 15:14:56, Fri, 4 Nov 2011 13:31:13
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