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An earlier comment found a nice page with a single list of many instances.

http://www.inlumineconsulting.com:8080/website/msf t.shilling.html

I know you can't cite wikipedia, but wikipedia cites the LA times :-)

In 2001, the Los Angeles Times accused Microsoft of astroturfing when hundreds of similar letters were sent to newspapers voicing disagreement with the United States Department of Justice and its antitrust suit against Microsoft. The letters, prepared by Americans for Technology Leadership, had in some cases been mailed from deceased citizens or nonexistent addresses.[1][2][3] Similar allegations were leveled against the "Freedom to Innovate Network", originally portrayed as an independent grassroots organization but web-hosted by Microsoft. and

In January 2007, an Australian writer revealed that a Microsoft employee had offered to pay him to edit Wikipedia articles regarding Microsoft products [10] While not specifically asking him to promote those products, the intent was to improve their image while concealing Microsoft's involvement. But this is the one that I think of from 1994.

http://www.pjprimer.com/jihad.html

Why do I even respond to this garbage? Turf away!

... at this link.

There was a reference to this anti-Moody rant; it seems that ol' Fred has had a reputation as a Microsoft shill for some time now.

It was also pointed out that Moody seems to have arrived at his Linux bug-counts by adding together the Red Hat and Linux Aggregate counts -- meaning that Red Hat bugs were counted twice. Counted correctly, NT has more Bugtraq entries than Linux.

Does that make NT the worst OS of all time?

First off, here is the official definition of a Moody.

Perhaps you've all forgotten his original column from 1998? Try this article. To quote directly,

But my informant didn't just rant: he probed the psychology of the Grail-seekers: "because linux makes it easy ... to mess under the hood, people actually feel like they 'control' ... it doesnt come from any rational thoughts."
"linux," he concluded, "sux."

Don't think that you can change his mind; email campaigns and sites such as this one have failed to draw a response. He's probably paid to spout FUD so just ignore him.