John Dvorak gives interesting reason for MSFT’s bad press

Call me when there’s a cable channel called “AppleNBC”

Well, you have to give Robert a break. He’s about to have to deal with the latest stupidity from Redmond:

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=172302918&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_news

Jesus…just how stupid are the people running the WM division? Between this and WiMP Mac, (Does WM 11 mean that the Mac version will be allowed to support WM10?), has anyone thought to tell the WM people that you’re not ACTUALLY supposed to be run by chimps?

One of the things I love about Dvorak (other than he gets no spam) is his consistency. Three weeks ago on a TWiT cast, Dvorak was telling the audience he expects Mac to end up with a 20 share of the PC market with it’s migration to Intel. And he seemed to suggest this was a good thing.

Now in PC Mag, it’s all about how all these writers are using a Mac & therefore Msft isn’t treated fairly? Maybe they just want to stay ahead of the curve, John. (I own four PCs running XP and 4 Macs – three running Jaguar & my 15″ running Tiger.)

Robert, I’d read your blog even if you worked for Yahoo!

If 99% of media people use Macs, then isn’t Dvorak of the idiots left behind? The reality is most professionals in the know prefer MacOS over Windows. Maybe Dvorak finally realized that.

Robert, may be Microsoft should try to release some real products to get some attention instead of hiring cheerleaders like you.

Makes perfect sense to me, just like the heavy liberalish-Establishment-elitest, media-concentration in NYC, which views Middle America as hayseed or flyover country; this colors all such reportage of said issues. The heavy Mac presence among the scribes will invariability produce subtle changes, even unintentional. The amount of ink Apple gets is well out-of-range even for it’s hits. Evidence of this is obvious, every chair-throwing bit, is reported endlessly until it’s perceptionally true. But they gloss over the near-daily Steve Jobs megalomania lunancy. JCD just sees the obvious, and anyone that dares paint him as a Redmond tool, hasn’t read him at all. That’s laughable.

As for the reasons, why those are varied and complex. But the nature of the 2 companies is also a big factor, one announces years ahead and then clangs the vapor and case studies into your head until you are sick of it, and delivers half of what promised, way later. Microsoft promises you a 16 oz. grain-fed perfectly chef-mastered steak, and delivers half a Big Mac (cold at that), a year off schedule. Apple says nothing and gives you a Ponderosa steak, bit rough and not Ruth Chris per se with none of the trimmings, but then you are happy, as you didn’t have expectations set to be lowered.

Dvorak does not, and has never cared about any reaction to his writing but one: that you do react, and strongly.

He is, in a sense, a troll. He’s had nothing new or interesting to say for years. All he does is figure out what people like and bash it. If it doesn’t generate a ream of hate mail and hit counts, he finds something else. One day, he’ll figure out the writing patter to bash everything in such a way that it pisses everyone off, and he’ll template it, and change a name occasionally.

Apple bias? Oh please. Why isn’t the convicted and plea-bargained (to avoid conviction) monopolist described never described as such? Why is the plague of security holes not given the media attention it deserves? Why is a proprietary, single-source product “open” when it comes to Microsoft, but “closed and proprietary” when it comes to Apple? The media doesn’t want to focus on all the problems with Microsoft products, because the people that pay the bills don’t want to read about off the problems, because that would make it look like they made a mistake by choosing a Microsoft OS.