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From: Adam <mmmmm_beer_mmmm_donuts@moes>

Ahhhh how sweet....it's our very own Joe Barr.....

http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/05/10/01/1548246.shtml


"Commentary: Well, they've done it again. In prime-time. With malice
aforethought. The duplicitous droogs, the denizens of deep-doodoo, I'm talking
about Bill Gates' Microsoft: caught in a bald-faced lie about HD DVD-ROM discs.
This is news? Not any more than the fact it's hot in Texas this summer or that
Katrina caused a lot of damage. It is, after all, the Microsoft way: dishonesty
in all things.


  This particular fabrication follows Microsoft's favorite formula for
deception: quote a valid fact or statistic out of context in an attempt to
deceive the public about something else. It's the same type of dishonesty that
Richard Shupak of Microsoft Research has used for years. Here's one example of
his duplicity from the bad old days, and strangely enough, the same two
players, the evil twins of Wintel, were involved then, just as they are in this
most recent episode of braggadocio."

& then....


"Even worse, Windows arch-enemy at the time, the dreaded OS/2, showed major
performance gains when running on the Pentium Pro. Not to worry, in one tiny
corner of cyberspace, a corner thick with journalists and analysts alike,
Richard Shupak of MS Research stepped up to do battle with the truth.

Shupak claimed that Windows 95 was no less 32-bit than OS/2, and therefore
there had to be some other explanation as to why Windows 95 ran slower on a
Pentium Pro while OS/2 ran faster. As evidence, he cited the total lines of
code in each OS, and the total lines of code that were 16 bit. Indeed, these
figures showed Windows 95 to be more of a 32-bit OS than OS/2. Left at that, it
was a perfect deception, with facts to back it up, while the truth of the
situation was left harpooned on the beach like a dying whale.

As shrewd and cunning as Shupak's lies were, they were not quite good enough.
IBM's Colin Powell pointed out the fallacy in the tale. Since the entire OS is
never loaded in memory at any one time, the statistics quipped by Shupak were
meaningless. What mattered, Powell noted, was the mix of 16-bit versus 32-bit
code actually running in the machine at any given moment. And on that basis, it
was the Pentium Pro who was the final arbiter, the blind justice, the
even-handed Solomon: and it decreed time after time, application after
application, that OS/2 rocked and Windows 95 sucked. Ergo, not only had MS been
lying for years about its "all new, all 32-bit" OS, they were piling on more
lies to cover up their previous disconnects with the truth. "



Oh chuckle.....

Adam

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