Throwing mud and trying to make it stick. Even if it will not,
at least MS will look a little dirty.
These battery accusations, stability accusations, chkdsk.exe,
memory leak accusations, DRM accusations etc. are nothing more
than mob mentality by Microsoft detractors.
Cynic bloggers (and talkbackers) with hidden agendas are
ceasing on what is individual hardware/driver issues and
creating FUD around them. MS will NEVER be able to refute
them, because the mob leaders will always just come back and
say "of course they deny the issues - what did you expect?".
Good scientific practice calls for a theory to have a way to
refute it, like "if this theory is NOT true then we should
see it through this experiment".
That is where e.g. religion fails. Sure we find 65 million
old fossils and the Earth is only 6000 years old. But that
is because our deity decided to make those fossils look
like they were 65 million years old.
These accusations fail in the same way. Pick a bunch of
similar issues off a forum and create a theory. How can we
ever know that it is NOT caused by Windows? We can't. How
can we know exactly how widespread it is? We can't - only
Microsoft may know those numbers, and whatever they say is
outright dismissed. As part of the strategy.
What we *do* know is that some bloggers have it in for
Microsoft. The Windows 7 success is a thorn in their eyes.
This follows an all too familiar pattern.
Desperation with the Microsoft haters. That's what fuels
this. The Microsoft hate disease as Linus Torvalds calls it.
I noticed that my ZDNet blogging colleague Mary-Jo Foley has covered the reports that Microsoft’s new reliability patch for Windows 7 might be causing some users to experience problems. I just want to add some field notes to this issue.
- I’ve heard from around a dozen readers who claim that there is some link between KB977074 and startup/shutdown issues in Windows 7.
- The issues reported seem vague and unspecific.
- While some affected users claim that uninstalling KB977074 helps, others say it does not.
- Alleged symptoms range from BSoD and long delays at startup, and slow shutdowns.
- No contacts in OEM supply chain are reporting complaints from users.
- Issue does not seem to be widespread. In fact, this issue might have little/nothing to do with the update in question, especially since uninstalling the update has no effect for some who claim to be affected.
- All systems here, along with all systems I scope out regularly, have no problems with this update.
Anyone out there with more to share?
