Microsoft Kremlinology
Contrary to speculation on Slashdot, no one at Microsoft has made a peep about my browser article on Slate last week, which recommended Mozilla’s Firefox over Internet Explorer. I’ve gotten email from people who presume I must be in trouble. Not at all - in fact MSN put an older article of mine about quick-and-dirty security fixes on their front door today. Meanwhile, the Firefox piece (which has been up for a week) is now promo’d on the front door of Slate as “Mozilla vs the Explorer Monster.”
Not that this will change the worldview of people like these guys who need to believe that Microsoft are a bunch of B-movie Nazis in blue polo shirts who hold us sniveling, bowtie-and-tweed-wearing journalists (a polite techie euphemism for “idiots”) in their evil clutches. To them, the article just proves Redmond’s all-powerful spin doctors are even more diabolically insidious than anyone had imagined. It’s like Dune: Plans within plans within plans!
My preferred theory: Gates is too busy reading Scobleizer to bother with me.