Posted on 12/09/2009 11:32:32 PM PST by Swordmaker
Probably still reeling from all publicity around these shots, Microsoft reportedly told journalists gathered for a company press event in Germany not to use or mention Apple products. Our German is a bit rusty and Google's is even worse, but according to Handelsblatt and our bad translation:
"While at a Windows Mobile 6.5 demonstration in Munich, Germany a journalist was warned by a Microsoft spokesman not to mention or use Apple products...since it was a Microsoft event the journalist had previously told everyone that he had never owned an easier to use cell phone than the iPhone."
Now, you can say what you like about Microsoft's huge market share - not just in terms of PC sales but also in virus and Trojan horse production - but even in Apple's darkest days we don't think Cupertino ever insisted on no mention or use of Microsoft-powered products. Looks like a fin de siecle to us...
Anyway, returning to the story, here's Google Translate's laughable translation of part of it - perhaps some of our German-speaking readers can, erm, actually translate this.
"The offense: The journalist had dared to talk during dinner to mention that he had never seen a possessed so easy to use phone like its iPhone. Und das auf der Vorstellung des Windows Betriebssystems Mobile 6.5. And on the idea of the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system. "The emotion surprised me," says a PR consultant was present at that time. "It shows that the nerves are raw."
"We've messed with Mobile 6.5," quoted Paul Jozefak, members of the Microsoft Venture Capital Summit, the Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer. "I wish we had Windows Mobile 7 in the market." This should come 2010th."
So there you have it - the world's biggest software company, sticking its head in the sand.
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Probably still reeling from all publicity around these shots, Microsoft reportedly told journalists gathered for a company press event in Germany not to use or mention Apple products.
I don't know how a company expects a journalist to use a different product (things that are tools of his profession -- a computer and a phone)...
Does Microsoft expect journalists to report on their Microsoft events -- but -- go out and buy a different computer and a different phone, just for Microsoft events...? LOL...
OK, how about Linux phones then?
Not likely to have any effect or change revenues.
> Does Microsoft expect journalists to report on their Microsoft events — but — go out and buy a different computer and a different phone, just for Microsoft events...? LOL...
How about a lo-tech pen-and-paper / Dictaphone combination?
How about a lo-tech pen-and-paper / Dictaphone combination?
Ahhhh..., okay..., to cover "hi-tech" (of Microsoft) you must go "lo-tech" with the tools of your trade... LOL...
hmmmmm... Journalist are A-holes and ac is the favored choice of a-holes.
I used a windows phone in 2003. It stank.
I used a Windows phone in 2008. It stank.
> Ahhhh..., okay..., to cover “hi-tech” (of Microsoft) you must go “lo-tech” with the tools of your trade... LOL...
(grin!) Despite the irony of it all, there is still no hi-tech substitute for a Dictaphone, when used properly in skilled hands.
The overall standard of business and journalistic writing has DROPPED DRAMATICALLY ever since writers were expected to do their own typing.
The overall standard of business and journalistic writing has DROPPED DRAMATICALLY ever since writers were expected to do their own typing.
. . . as is natural when you add in extraneous requirements for people to do specialized things. Which is why "pitchers can't hit" - not that the ability to hit makes you a worse pitcher, but the ability pitch gets you to the big leagues even if you cannot hit - and not being able to hit at a big league level is a nearly universal attribute among the general population.
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