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December 27, 2006Microsoft giving away a Ferrari or two!Well, the Net is buzzing with the fact some bloggers received free laptops from Microsoft. Nice Acer Ferrari laptops. Sweet looking things. Charlie and Mitch both have one (bought with their own money... not from Microsoft), and I have been quite jealous to see how well Vista runs on them. My lowly Acer TravelMate C110 Tablet can't run Aero... so I miss some of the sexiness in Vista, as well as the performance. What bugs me though is the conspiracy theory that MS is buying bloggers. Gimme a break. Who cares. Microsoft... feel free to send me a Ferrari any time. We both know I will continue to say what I feel... and not what you WANT me to feel. Actually... people inside of Microsoft have always been supportive of my own views... even when they go against their own. Sometimes conflict is the only way to get things brought to the forefront of discussion. If you believe a blogger's integrity can be bought so easily... is that really a blogger you want to read/trust? Get off it. Kudos to Microsoft for going out of its way to give these machines to the community, and not to mainstream media. I think it was a great idea. And if you are a blogger who received one and think its wrong, immoral or what have you... feel free to contact me. I can put it to good use. Comments
MS and other companies DO NOT give unti to MSM to keep. The must be returned. Even uber-blogger Leo Laporte gives back units after testing. "If you believe a blogger's integrity can be bought so easily... is that really a blogger you want to read/trust? " Exactly. No, I wouldn't trust a blogger who takes gifts from the company he/her comments on. All those accepting the Ferrari as a "gift" will find that their blog credibility: compromised Posted by: patrick at December 27, 2006 05:36 PM |
 
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