Microsoft Taps Bloggers to Promote Longhorn

Tim writes "With Beta 1 of Longhorn less than two months away, Microsoft is looking at a new marketing tool to help promote its new Windows: bloggers. According to BetaNews, Microsoft's "Team 99" evangelism effort will be composed of bloggers that will become Microsoft's voice to the masses. Robert Scoble said Team 99 was once secret, but has been revived and Microsoft is now accepting nominations. It's nice to see Microsoft recognizing the power of blogs, but the move is likely going to draw accusations that Redmond is trying to buy off bloggers to hype Longhorn."

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Longhorn is Dying

[markv242]

It is now official. Netcraft confirms: Longhorn is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Longhorn community when IDC confirmed that Longhorn market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Longhorn has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Longhorn is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict Longhorn's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Longhorn faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Longhorn because Longhorn is dying. Things are looking very bad for Longhorn. As many of us are already aware, Longhorn continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

64-bit Longhorn is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time 64-bit Longhorn developers Relph Slenson and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Longhorn is dying.

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You got it. :-)

[Richard Steiner]

Why else do you think the Slackware penguin smokes a pipe? :-)