Microsoft

Two posts in one week and both about the same issue of Wired no less. Yesterday’s kerfuffle in which Wired is “shocked, shocked” to learn there is a PR industry has been all over the blogosphere.  Microsoft screwed up by accidentally sending Fred Vogelstein of Wired the internal briefing document written for the folks he was interviewing. …

The April issue has an article entitled “Desktop R.I.P.” that enthuses breathlessly about “computing moving off your machine and into the cloud”.  I talked to the reporter, Jason Tanz, for this article a couple months ago (real-time Wired isn’t).  Tanz, whose byline suggests his most eminent qualification to do the story was writing a book about Hip-Hop in…