Microsoft to Fix Shortcut Vulnerability Monday

@mikerisner,

Paul rarely praises Apple these days, and when he does, it is quickly followed by a long list of the "problems" he has with them.

Every time he mentions their sales success, he has to throw in some negative comment. Apple "brags" about their sales, while Microsoft "announces" their sales.

He constantly insults their products, ipad, iphone, OS X, etc. Remember the idud? In his reporting people only buy them because they are blind lemmings.

He mocks other industry writers about their lack of objective reporting, then follows with articles like "I Love Windows Phone".

I challenge you to look over all of Paul's writing for 2010. Look at every article that mentions Apple. Make a list of the ones that do not have a negative tone.

Just look at this article. This was written without any commentary and is basically a factual report. If this was about Apple, it would be full of all sorts of bashing.

@1. True. Thurrott can be harsh on Apple, but he regularly praises the company on the gains it has made for itself (its products, sales success, etc) and for the industry (iTunes' leverage to get popular content digitally distributed like TV shows, movies, the influence on un-DRM'd music). I think Thurrott gets sore about how Microsoft is overlooked and considered a failure (cloud initiatives like hosted Exchange) while being criticized for just about everything. Meanwhile, Steve Jobs employs strawman defenses (BlackBerry has a bad antenna too), releases buggy software (MacOS X Snow Leopard, iOS 4), and then receives clearly undue praise. It seems Jobs can break wind and have the tech press laud it as the event of the year.

@mikerisner,

Nope, just pointing out Paul's usual hypocrisy. He makes no mention of Windows problems when reporting on sales figures or making recommendations, but ALWAYS finds a way to point out every single reported issue on the iphone. He still mentions the yellowing screens, which no one else has done since the first few days of the launch, one users realized that the yellowing goes away.

Wait, @1! The iPhone's icons have a security flaw in them?! And Steve hasn't issued an sub-incremental fix for it like that dangerous signal strength indicator fix?! Will there be a bumper that that?

"Given the severity of the flaw, and its widespread effect across all supported Windows versions, I recommend that all Windows users immediately download and install this patch."

How come you are not recommending that users skip Windows due to this flaw, like you do for the iphone?