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Windows XP Embedded

Posted by michael on from the splinter-in-your-toe dept.

Embedded Geek writes: "Embedded Systems Programming has a piece about Microsoft organizing its employees to advocate their embedded products in online newsgroups (part of "a new culture at Microsoft" making "an effort to shed the company's reputation as an incommunicative giant.") This is coordinated with Microsoft's launch of Windows XP Embedded at their Embedded Developers' Conference (the countdown clock on their homepage says Wednesday but the launch party is Thursday)." News.com notes that this will be used in slot machines and ATMs. Insert obligatory free-money joke.

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  1. This *is* news by bribecka · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    A company is getting their employees to promote their products? What is next? Renting out TV air time for, say, 30 seconds or so, to showcase that product...maybe with some background music? Perhaps Madonna will do?

    It's not just that this isn't "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters"...it's not even NEWS!

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    1. Re:This *is* news by bribecka · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      This post does not necessarily deserve a rating higher than zero, but if it remains at zero, that could be an indication of just how many ms marketeering accounts actually exist here.

      Please also note the rating of the pro-microsoft parent.

      First, your post may stay at zero because it is an AC post. Maybe it should be +1 insightful, maybe.

      Second, the rating on my original post is due to my karma, everything i post automatically gets a 2. If i post "can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these", that even gets a 2. Go figure.

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    2. Re:This *is* news by sam@caveman.org · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      yup, i'm sure michael personally looks at your post and thinks, 'oh gee this needs to be censored. the slashdot readership should not be allowed to view this opinion.'

      moderation is not censorship, it is moderating the crap (i.e., posts like yours which did not seem to say anything of importance) down so people can read the good stuff, like good old-fashioned 'hot grits' and flamebaits and trolls.

      and i have to add, nowhere will you find on slashdot any mention that many of the editors think they are either 'good journalists' or 'objective'. if you want that try a different website, but be warned that the two are nearly mutually exclusive in 'the wild', because good journalists get noticed, and nearly everyone has a price.

      i'll agree that it's too bad we can't have at least ONE of those traits here :) but hey, this is free, at least.

      so welcome to the real world, where yes, your opinion may be unpopular. but i seriously doubt many moderation points are wasted because 'oh! he doesn't like michael!' it is more like 'jeez, this post doesn't say a damn thing of interest. moving on...'

      -sam

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