I’ve told you so, no one should ever believe Paul Thurrott; The Original Microsoft Cheerleader. March 18, 2010
Posted by very in : Announcement, Apple, Applications, Apps, iPhone, Media, Microsoft, News, Rants, Resources, Security, Tech, Troubleshooting , add a commentThanks to Chris Grande for exposing what Paul Thurrott really is; a Microsoft Cheerleader. Thanks to John Gruber for pointing out John Grande’s post.
From Daring Fireball:
Paul Thurrott’s Curiously Shifting Thoughts on Copy-and-Paste.
You should read what Chris Grande wrote.
I for one have been noticing what a shill Paul Thurrott is. I even called him out on Leo Laporte’s TWiT network. It is funny how Leo Laporte is defending Paul Thurrott even though outside the Abomination of a show called “Windows Weekly” that should have been called “Microsoft P.R. Weekly” Laporte often expressed his disagreement with Thurrott. I theorize that Leo Laporte is suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder. You’ll never know which Leo Laporte would show up. There are a lot of real Tech Journalists can host “Windows Weekly” but Leo Laporte still insists that Paul Thurrott is fair and balanced. Yeah, just like Fox News.
A lot of time Thurrot does make valid points, only to have his credibility destroyed by his adoration with Microsoft. I don’t know if it’s a pure adoration or it’s financially motivated. I don’t know. This I know that Thurrott has the double standard whenever it comes to Microsoft and other companies.
Message to Leo Laporte, get someone who is not financially motivated by Microsoft to host Windows Weekly.
There I said it.
Ford recalls Mustang just to mess with Leo Laporte. February 19, 2010
Posted by 37prime in : Announcement, Comedy, Entertainment, Humor, Media, News, Resources, Tech, TV , add a commentRipped from the “headline:”
Ford Recalls 2010 Mustang For Being Too Cool
FEBRUARY 16, 2010 | ISSUE 46•07
DETROIT—-Ford officials issued a massive recall of the entire 2010 Mustang line Tuesday, apologizing for a quality-control oversight that led to the company manufacturing a badass muscle car that was way too awesome for the American public.
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According to Mulally, Ford has canceled production on the 2011 Mustang, and will instead release a line of fuel-efficient vehicles in an effort to appeal to boring old Americans.
I bet Ford found out that the Mustang is way too cool for Leo Laporte. Sorry Leo, the Mustang is way out of your league.
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/sarc
Leo Laporte’s 2010 Ford Mustang. November 8, 2009
Posted by 37prime in : Announcement, Media, Movies, News, Pictures, Resources, Tech , add a commentLeo Laporte bought a new 2010 Ford Mustang. According to the video he posted it’s not the GT500 model.
http://www.fordvehicles.com/cars/mustang/
TWiT 218: “Windows 7 is a nice apology for Windows Vista.” September 27, 2009
Posted by very in : Announcement, Media, Microsoft, News, Resources, Tech, Vista, Windows , add a commentOn TWiT 218 the panel seems to agree that “Windows 7 is a nice apology for Windows Vista.”
Then why consumers still have to pay a lot to buy Windows 7?
FSF: Microsoft’s Windows 7 Deadly Sins August 27, 2009
Posted by very in : Announcement, Apple, Applications, Apps, Comedy, Humor, Media, Microsoft, News, Rants, Resources, Tech, Vista, Windows , add a commentNo! It is not FFS. It’s FSF. It stands for Free Software Foundation.
It’s “Free” as in Liberty, noat as in free beer.
As much as I believe that there are a lot of Hippies out there involved in the Free Software Foundation, I still wonder why I’m making this very statement.
Let’s get to the main story. As I read an RSS item from Slashdot (lots of Hippies are frequenting this site), one really caught my short attention span. Well because it is on the top of the RSS feed and the only unread items at that moment. I was previously offended by the troll-behavior of Microsoft P.R. team (Paul Thurrott, Ed Bott and Mary Jo Foley with the addition of Randall C. Kennedy) as described by Tom Reetsman. By the way, Reetsman (via The Small Wave) just posted his take on Thurrott’s rants against anything that is not Microsoft; specifically Apple. Well, at least Thurrott has one loyal supporter (an accomplice *cough*) defending everything Thurrot said and attacking the non-Microsoft company (namely Apple in this article).
Oh where was I? I told you my attention span was short.
Free Software Foundation, Inc. has created a site titled “Windows 7 Sins – The case against Microsoft and proprietary software.”
http://windows7sins.org/
Don’t worry Apple haters, they mentioned “proprietary software.” Apple does make proprietary software, therefore guilty by association. I bet that Thurrott is trying hard to make himself look neutral by attacking other companies that make “proprietary softwares.” We all know that Thurrott lives off Microsoft’s business model.
I prefer to slack than copying and pasting the arguments brought up by FSF. I get the message, but I do not blindly agree to every single point they make. I do take advantage of many things the Open Source Community have to offer in the past and present. I am pretty sure that it will be a similar situation in the future. I do also believe that propriety was born out of necessity. I don’t mind proprietary software as long as we have other alternatives. I’m pretty sure that Google has some kind of proprietary software. I still use Google as my main search engine; Microsoft can Bing themselves.
OK, I opted not to slack as much by echoing FSF’s argument points:
- Poisoning education
- Invading privacy
- Monopoly behavior
- Lock-in
- Abusing standards
- Enforcing Digital Restrictions Management (DRM)
- Threatening user security
If you feel compelled to say that there are other companies also guilty of the sins, then feel free to tell FSF about it.
To loosely quote MacBreak Weekly panel, Apple and Steve Jobs would be worse than Microsoft if they had the monopoly.
Well, I definitely need to get some sleep, no wonder this turns into a rant.
P.S. EFF – I just feel like saying it at this moment.
