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Microsoft's Attempt To Silence a Zune Critic Backfires
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| Props to Drew for recognizing an attempt to gag bad reviews in advance.
| Those efforts always backfire, and this one appears to be proving that
| rule. And given that Engadget's latest screenshot of Zune installation
| errors are reinforcing Microsoft's reputation for buggy software, Drew
| seems to have been appropriately leary of being able to say only good
| things about the Zune experience.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061113/20488_id.html?.v=1
Media control, media control, media control and propaganda.
Bill Gates lends cash to buy newspapers
$350 million to MediaNews
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| Gates involvement has been very behind the scenes. In fact many of
| those involved in the deal didn'teven know he was one of the investors.
| It was carried out through the Gates Foundation, the world's largest
| philanthropy outfit.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33849
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