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• Schizophrenia, Public Relations, and Windows Roadmaps

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Jul 24 2007, 09:30 PM

  Filed under: Service Packs, Interviews, Journalists, Marketing, Windows Vista SP1

  I haven't been a real big fan of Microsoft's PR machine post-Allchin. It seems like as soon as Jim left and Windows Vista was released, the heavy-hitters at Microsoft went on vacation, and the second string PR people have been running the show ever since
  

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• Ziff-Davis Rights a Major Wrong

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Jan 28 2007, 11:14 AM

  Filed under: Journalists

  Maybe I won't have to cancel my subscription to PC Magazine after all. Apparently my post last week raised quite a bit of hell inside the walls of Ziff Davis (which is exactly what I had intended it to do), and they swiftly came to their senses. A search
  

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• I'm Done With Ziff Davis, eWeek, and Microsoft Watch

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Jan 21 2007, 12:19 AM

  Filed under: Journalists

  It's just not Joe Wilcox's week. On Thursday, I beat him down for extremely faulty logic regarding his post on the Windows Vista Family Discount. The this morning, Ed Bott calls him out for not fact-checking his post about IE7 woes. If the comments on
  

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• Gartner Has Officially Jumped the Shark

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Oct 20 2006, 04:14 PM

  Filed under: Journalists

  Joris Evers from C|Net covers a Gartner report that says that HIPS solutions will not work on Vista x64 . But wait a second, didn't BetaNews.com just post an excellent article about how the Sophos antivirus product works like a charm on Vista x64, without
  

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• WGA and SPP: Normal People Don't Care

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Oct 08 2006, 01:28 AM

  Filed under: Community, Journalists, News, Windows Pricing, WGA

  Joe Wilcox has a long and interesting post about Windows juxtaposed against the offerings of Web 2.0 companies, in respect to Microsoft's recently announced Software Protection Platform. He thinks that Web 2.0 companies have the better business model
  

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• Mary Jo Foley: The Exit Interview

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Sep 20 2006, 04:16 PM

  Filed under: Community, Interviews, Journalists

  Alright, I admit it. I knew what was going on all along . Mary Jo Foley dropped a bombshell this afternoon , announcing she was leaving MicrosoftWatch to branch out on her own after 11 years at ZiffDavis. What are her plans for the future? I have the
  

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