JUST over a week ago Microsoft rushed to spin a departure as "appointment", resulting in many puff pieces such as these [1, 2] (we saw nearly a dozens of these parrots of Microsoft's press release).

Conformism is a seemingly innocent and innocuous 10-letter word, sort of 'derived' from the act of "conforming" or "to conform". In the social context and the technical context the word hasn't the ...

This year in January: Journalistic Malpractice Helps Bill Gates Cover Up His Marriage Collapsing Because of His Very Deep Ties to Jeffrey Epstein (and It's Melinda Who Dumped Him, Divorce Proceedings ...

From the latest (new) report: The report from the 'Linux' Foundation was prepared using Microsoft Windows: They say "open source" is better, but they use proprietary InDesign. Hypocrites and ...

'Linux' Foundation isn't Linux, it is not even committed to Linux: Imagine having something called the GNU Foundation devoted to promoting 'crypto' 'currency' or the FSF (which is a real thing) ...

Like Twitter, Microsoft cannot quite turn its expensive acquisition into something that "brings home the bacon". In Twitter's case, it only operated at a loss (over 90% of the time) and amassed huge ...

IBM workers see the signs or the writings on the wall. Some "jump". There seems to be a consensus that more layoffs ("RAs") are coming weeks from now: (claims have been made those layoffs will be ...

In recent days he promoted the idea Trump had won the 2020 election and now he's now promoting Trump (for his allegedly... third term?): ...

"More layoffs in 1Q the Finance and HR goblins are already working on the lists," somebody wrote about IBM 8 hours ago (also see Claims of More IBM Layoffs a Week Before 'Christmas Week') IBM, which ...

This morning we mentioned (and quoted IRC) how Microsoft had vandalised computing (with restricted boot) and then called its vandalism "BIOS". None of this is an 'accident' or a mere 'side effect'.

After many months of silence [1, 2] (inactivity) The Register MS brought back to life "devclass" or DevClass, which is basically a Microsoft propaganda site run by Microsoft Tim (when he covers Linux ...

Julian Assange has neatly demonstrated that efforts to gag reporters or stalk reporters (to trip them up) is counterproductive; it results in more publicity, fame, public attention. People crave ...