Microsoft vote rigging
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This is hilarious: ZDNet poll rigged my Microsoft. Poor ZDNet posted an online poll and get all miffed when Microsoft started ballot box stuffing. One..two..three...DUH! Maybe I should offer ZDnet the use of our survey setup ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
I can't believe how serious they make the story sound. :-) and then add the following guff to try to make it look like a trend: This is not the first time Microsoft has been caught using dubious practices. Last August, lobbyists acting for Microsoft went beyond the grave and dispatched letters to US states' attorneys general from two deceased people as part of a campaign to persuade government prosecutors to lay off the company in the antitrust case. US lobby group the Campaign Against Government Waste (CAGW) posted the letters as part of an attempt to convince attorneys general there was a grass-roots campaign against the case. I don't think anyone would invest $$ in the results of a public ZDNet poll, but they make it sound like it is of international importance. Its not like it is A CP survey where real people make real choices about the future :-) and then seem to change it into a cup size debate. Technology journalism is getting worse every day. Lets face it people who can, code. And people who can't publish articles about it for the masses of technologically impaired. Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I live in Bob's HungOut now
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This is hilarious: ZDNet poll rigged my Microsoft. Poor ZDNet posted an online poll and get all miffed when Microsoft started ballot box stuffing. One..two..three...DUH! Maybe I should offer ZDnet the use of our survey setup ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
I think someone is trying to frame Microsoft. See this sentence:- "made 228 attempts to vote. This person was from within the microsoft.com domain" I do not think Microsoft is that stupid. Obviously some clowns are trying to frame them... Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
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I can't believe how serious they make the story sound. :-) and then add the following guff to try to make it look like a trend: This is not the first time Microsoft has been caught using dubious practices. Last August, lobbyists acting for Microsoft went beyond the grave and dispatched letters to US states' attorneys general from two deceased people as part of a campaign to persuade government prosecutors to lay off the company in the antitrust case. US lobby group the Campaign Against Government Waste (CAGW) posted the letters as part of an attempt to convince attorneys general there was a grass-roots campaign against the case. I don't think anyone would invest $$ in the results of a public ZDNet poll, but they make it sound like it is of international importance. Its not like it is A CP survey where real people make real choices about the future :-) and then seem to change it into a cup size debate. Technology journalism is getting worse every day. Lets face it people who can, code. And people who can't publish articles about it for the masses of technologically impaired. Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I live in Bob's HungOut now
Colin Davies wrote: Its not like it is A CP survey where real people make real choices about the future and then seem to change it into a cup size debate. Colin......... Don't get poor Mr Maunder all worked up again... Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
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I think someone is trying to frame Microsoft. See this sentence:- "made 228 attempts to vote. This person was from within the microsoft.com domain" I do not think Microsoft is that stupid. Obviously some clowns are trying to frame them... Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
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Hmmmm. I still think the whole thing is a hoax Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
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I think someone is trying to frame Microsoft. See this sentence:- "made 228 attempts to vote. This person was from within the microsoft.com domain" I do not think Microsoft is that stupid. Obviously some clowns are trying to frame them... Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
So let's all guess how many votes came from sun.com? Of course Microsoft are going to vote. I can almost guarantee you that Tony Goodhew (the Microsoft JUMP guy and an Aussie to boot) would have personally spent a good hour with a few pints of Guiness and a laptop posting some of those votes. Anyone who thinks that the results of a survey like that are even vaguely realistic are seriously kidding themselves. cheers, Chris Maunder
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So let's all guess how many votes came from sun.com? Of course Microsoft are going to vote. I can almost guarantee you that Tony Goodhew (the Microsoft JUMP guy and an Aussie to boot) would have personally spent a good hour with a few pints of Guiness and a laptop posting some of those votes. Anyone who thinks that the results of a survey like that are even vaguely realistic are seriously kidding themselves. cheers, Chris Maunder
Gosh Chris This is indeed news to me. I mean I thought they'd at least spoof their IP Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
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This is hilarious: ZDNet poll rigged my Microsoft. Poor ZDNet posted an online poll and get all miffed when Microsoft started ballot box stuffing. One..two..three...DUH! Maybe I should offer ZDnet the use of our survey setup ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
This is not the first time Microsoft has been caught using dubious practices. Last August, lobbyists acting for Microsoft went beyond the grave and dispatched letters to US states' attorneys general from two deceased people as part of a campaign to persuade government prosecutors to lay off the company in the antitrust case. US lobby group the Campaign Against Government Waste (CAGW) posted the letters as part of an attempt to convince attorneys general there was a grass-roots campaign against the case. Two deceased people ? Wow, that duo is really going to have an impact on the total amount of letters. Unless there were only three or four letters. Now, if there where hundreds of dead people sending letters they would have had something to write about. Maybe ZDNet has too much time to waste. X|
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This is hilarious: ZDNet poll rigged my Microsoft. Poor ZDNet posted an online poll and get all miffed when Microsoft started ballot box stuffing. One..two..three...DUH! Maybe I should offer ZDnet the use of our survey setup ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
LOL, shocking what is considered news today. ----- "A online poll, known for being easily rigged, was found to be rigged. But since this time it was rigged by Microsoft, we are reporting it as some travisty against humanity." "Messages left with janitors at Microsoft still haven't been returned 30 seconds after they were placed." "L33tSeR, a Java fanboy was quoted as saying, 'i (sic) am disgusted at the behaviour of Micro$oft (sic) (sic) u (sic) can't trust them (sic) b4 (sic) u (sic) know it, Micro$oft (sic) will have left u (sic) and me without any pure poll only rigged by the masses of Java fanboys.'" Tim Smith Descartes Systems Sciences, Inc.
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LOL, shocking what is considered news today. ----- "A online poll, known for being easily rigged, was found to be rigged. But since this time it was rigged by Microsoft, we are reporting it as some travisty against humanity." "Messages left with janitors at Microsoft still haven't been returned 30 seconds after they were placed." "L33tSeR, a Java fanboy was quoted as saying, 'i (sic) am disgusted at the behaviour of Micro$oft (sic) (sic) u (sic) can't trust them (sic) b4 (sic) u (sic) know it, Micro$oft (sic) will have left u (sic) and me without any pure poll only rigged by the masses of Java fanboys.'" Tim Smith Descartes Systems Sciences, Inc.
ROTFLMAO! Oh man - I just choked on my drink. :-D cheers, Chris Maunder
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This is hilarious: ZDNet poll rigged my Microsoft. Poor ZDNet posted an online poll and get all miffed when Microsoft started ballot box stuffing. One..two..three...DUH! Maybe I should offer ZDnet the use of our survey setup ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
And if it was say Sun.com or Apple.com doing the same thing, and showing that .net was being whipped, you'd be all foaming at the mouth calling for all sorts of investigations and such. But since you seem to spend about half your time at Microsoft getting all cozy with them, no surprise you'd come to their defense.
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And if it was say Sun.com or Apple.com doing the same thing, and showing that .net was being whipped, you'd be all foaming at the mouth calling for all sorts of investigations and such. But since you seem to spend about half your time at Microsoft getting all cozy with them, no surprise you'd come to their defense.
Read the comments. It's nothing to do with who's winning - it's the fact that such a dodgy survey is being taken so seriously. We are all easily amused ;) cheers, Chris Maunder
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I can't believe how serious they make the story sound. :-) and then add the following guff to try to make it look like a trend: This is not the first time Microsoft has been caught using dubious practices. Last August, lobbyists acting for Microsoft went beyond the grave and dispatched letters to US states' attorneys general from two deceased people as part of a campaign to persuade government prosecutors to lay off the company in the antitrust case. US lobby group the Campaign Against Government Waste (CAGW) posted the letters as part of an attempt to convince attorneys general there was a grass-roots campaign against the case. I don't think anyone would invest $$ in the results of a public ZDNet poll, but they make it sound like it is of international importance. Its not like it is A CP survey where real people make real choices about the future :-) and then seem to change it into a cup size debate. Technology journalism is getting worse every day. Lets face it people who can, code. And people who can't publish articles about it for the masses of technologically impaired. Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I live in Bob's HungOut now
And people who can neither write nor code teach technical journalism classes at night. There are three kinds of people - those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened...