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> B Gruff wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 28 December 2006 23:42 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Microsoft's Laptop Giveaway Becoming PR Disaster?
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | This thing is starting to feel like a PR disaster. Bloggers are
>>> | starting to smell blood and this thing very well may begin to
>>> | turn into yet another episode of bloggers gone wild.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061228/23174_id.html?.v=1
>>>
>>> Would you really expect a blogger to vent anger after receiving a
>>> gift...? Microsoft buys its friends, not earns them.
>>
>> If you think about it Roy, this is all "a bit of a b****r" as we say
>> around here, isn't it?
>> Look at it this way. If you are a blogger, and write about MS and Vista
>> in particular:-
>>
>> 1. If you received one of these from them, and declare it, and say
>> something good about MS/Vista, you've shot yourself in the foot really -
>> everybody is thinking "He's been bribed".
>>
>> 2. If you received one, and declare it, and say not-so-good things,
>> everybody is thinking, "He's just trying to show us that bribery doesn't
>> work", or else "blimey! Think what he'd have said if he'd *not* been
>> bribed!"
>>
>> 3. If you received one, and *don't* declare it, and anybody finds out, you
>> are finished!
>>
>> 4. - and finally, if you did *not* get one, and say anything not-so-bad
>> about MS/Vista, everybody now says "He was bribed - they gave him one of
>> those laptops"!
>>
>> Ye gods! It's a lose - lose - lose - lose situation!
>
>
> Having found out the laptop bribe scam, it is easier to understand
> the PR machine and discard and discredit its output.
> If the micoshaft munchkins were first found out for what
> they really were, then it would be a very different world that
> greeted their output.
Join the Social^TM. Extol and cherish the virtues of Microsoft. The Shill for
Bill programme has just gotten inspired by the PayPerPost scheme.
Where else would you find technology which enables millions of nodes to work
simultaneously toward achieving the same task (e.g. boosting stocks, selling
v14gr4)?
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