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The angry, disrespectful Bill Gates is the real Bill Gates. He once threw a tantrum in front of several Time Magazine editors, who reported it in the next issue of the magazine. There were stories in many publications giving examples of VERY immature behavior.

However, Mr. Gates was persuaded to hire Waggener Edstrom, a public relations company. Pam Edstrom helped him create a new image. Pam somehow got Mr. Gates to take showers, wear good clothes, and stop having public tantrums. She arranged carefully scripted interviews, so that Mr. Gates' real self is never seen now.

Waggener Edstrom is in Portland, Oregon, USA, and a local newspaper, Willamette Week, reported the Gates-Edstrom connection. However, the article is available as a paper copy only.

Public relations firms are extremely successful at influencing media companies. There is a reference to this in a Willamette Week story in which someone suggested that Pam Edstrom heavily influenced the Oregonian newspaper not to print stories that Microsoft pays no taxes. (Search for "Edstrom".)

The angry, disrespectful Bill Gates is the real Bill Gates. He once threw a tantrum in front of several Time Magazine editors, who reported it in the next issue of the magazine. There were stories in many publications giving examples of VERY immature behavior.

However, Mr. Gates was persuaded to hire Waggener Edstrom, a public relations company. Pam Edstrom helped him create a new image. Pam somehow got Mr. Gates to take showers, wear good clothes, and stop having public tantrums. She arranged carefully scripted interviews, so that Mr. Gates' real self is never seen now.

Waggener Edstrom is in Portland, Oregon, USA, and a local newspaper, Willamette Week, reported the Gates-Edstrom connection. However, the article is available as a paper copy only.

Public relations firms are extremely successful at influencing media companies. There is a reference to this in a Willamette Week story in which someone suggested that Pam Edstrom heavily influenced the Oregonian newspaper not to print stories that Microsoft pays no taxes. (Search for "Edstrom".)

The FBI's new securities fraud (pumper/dumper club) hotline also seems to be producing good tips. Barely a day after the phone line was set up (at (800) 207-7676 or http://sanfrancisco.fbi.gov), more than 20 calls and e-mails had been received. "Some of the tips we've gotten are very promising and even corroborate ongoing investigations," Black said.

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From the article: It's easier to vandalize a Web site than to program a remote control.

Translation: The author of the article has done neither. If you are an editor, this is one of those phrases that tip you off that the author is willing to say anything to make the article more interesting to the average reader, even if it is entirely invented. Further translation: It's time to fire Steven Levy, the author.

This article, I'm guessing, was paid for by Waggener Edstrom (wagged.com, as in "the tail wagged the dog"), Microsoft's PR company.

Notice that they are already preparing you for the reality of Microsoft's efforts: "I firmly believe we will be shipping with bugs," says Paul England.

The article says, One hurdle is getting people to trust Microsoft. Here are more than 200 pages in which the U.S. government said that Microsoft could not be trusted: U.S. Justice Department complaints against Microsoft.

Will we begin trusting people who have abundantly proven that they cannot be trusted, and have been convicted of breaking the law? Will the government let Jeffrey Dahmer or Charles Manson free? Will an adversarial, self-destructive company suddenly become charitable?

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