Originally Posted by Frappacino (Post 1014912)

Microsoft are so competitive they KOed Meego before it got into the boxing ring.

Competitive enough for you ?

Originally Posted by Frappacino (Post 1015205)

What MS did to Nokia is not even close to what they have done to others.

This deal is above board - blame Nokia's incompetence in executing the Meego strategy for falling for it. It takes 2 to Mango.

Originally Posted by danramos (Post 1014909)

Yes and no. Yes, there are those. No, there are still many that aren't necessarily ready to break their integrity for money or gifts. What I think happens sometimes with tech journalists is that they prefer to root for everyone and decide to do away with any critical thinking in their reporting. In all honesty, I'm far more likely to believe that that's the case, based on the way they talk. It annoys me when they make innaccurate statements or conveniently forget to do any research (or maybe they don't have a genuine interest in tech) and didn't realize how much better something could/should be or forget that something had already been done before. (ala Microsoft claiming to invent filesystem hard links in a patent, or that Apple DID try to get into the gaming market (remember the Apple Pippin?) WAY before Microsoft, and so on and so on).

Irksome. Just... irksome. Seems less about money and integrity and more a lack of journalists bothering to do some research or a lack of experience.

Originally Posted by TomJ (Post 1016049)

One cannot hope to bribe or twist
(thank God!) the British journalist.
But seeing what the man will do
unbribed, there's no occassion to

Originally Posted by Frappacino (Post 1015205)

What MS did to Nokia is not even close to what they have done to others.

This deal is above board - blame Nokia's incompetence in executing the Meego strategy for falling for it. It takes 2 to mangle.

Originally Posted by qwazix (Post 1016340)

corrected again