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Microsoft bribes again?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 5 comments
Computerworld; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols 		Mail this story
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My former colleague, Joe Wilcox, observes that he doesn't think it's a big deal that Microsoft handed out laptops to bloggers, analysts and reviewers loaded with the Windows 7 alpha. He adds that "All week, I have watched for someone to raise a fuss and hoped that no one would." Wilcox then added that, last time around when Microsoft did this with Vista, that Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols "joined the chorus of critics calling the laptops bribes," while he had defended Microsoft's practice.

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Comments (5)

tuxchick ·
Duh, it's bribes (nt)
gus3 ·
"nothing traceable"
jacog ·
not tracyanne - gasp!
vainrveenr ·
Bribes instead of actual MS "new" technology? Although perhaps there really will be some bona fide "new" technology at Microsoft Research Asia's Innovation Day November 5th, 2008 (http://research.microsoft.com/aboutmsr/labs/asia/innovationd...)

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