over at PC Magazine. It must be that, because the top of the page has tips for switching to Mac on one side, and a story from John Dvorak about the time coming to download Ubuntu.
Now I have seen Dvorak, in print, long enough to know he has never been in on the hit-you-in-the-face Microsoft slant of the rest of the magazine, but when his article appears with one about a Mac switch concurrently, something is definitely changing. Note I didn’t say wrong, because it should have been this way for quite some time.
Perhaps the people are tired of the e-mail they keep getting about the bias. Perhaps the changes are due to inner discord, because I’ve heard things are not happy-happy-joy-joy at Ziff-Davis and its various entities. Whatever it is, I’m glad to see it, because the time is over that Microsoft puts out something and the masses accept it blindly, as though it had been delivered on stone tablets.
Ed Bott is doing his best over at ZDNet to spread the Microsoft religion, with the wonders of Windows 7 extolled nearly each day in a new and different way. The minions at Extreme Tech, which should be renamed Extreme Nausea, or possibly Extreme Boredom, serve up the same blather about the wonders of Microsoft code, as though it had been transformed completely, with no remnants from the last 20 years of work from the Redmond halls.
How many times is it necessary to show that you’re earning your pay(ola) from Redmond?
I hope that Windows 7 is released soon, so that the greater public, which is very good at separating fact from fiction, can rip Microsoft a new orifice for this garbage that it thinks is a good effort. Only then will the change come. Hopefully, for Ziff’s employees, it will come soon enough to allow them to save some face, otherwise it is going to be amazing looking at the before and after comparison texts.
I’ll probably be getting a Dell or Asus mini, and putting OS X on it, because it will be different, and at the same time better. Perhaps someone should deliver one of these to Mr. Ballmer – no, he wouldn’t get it anyway.
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