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Chat with Microsoft Beat Journalist Preston Gralla (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the do-androids-dream-of-electrified-windows? dept.

Preston Gralla hasn't really been following Microsoft since 1820, but he's been doing it so long that it sometimes seems as if he has. His popular Seeing Through Windows blog on Computerworld.com or possibly his IT World blog, The Power of One, may be the main reasons his name is familiar to a lot of people, but he's also written an amazing stack of IT-related books. Obviously, if you look at the lists of blog posts and books Preston has written, he writes about plenty besides Microsoft, and isn't particularly pro-Microsoft. In fact, when we asked him for tablet-buying advice, he recommended iOS tablets if you have plenty of budget, and maybe an Android tablet (specifically the Nexus 7) if your budget is a little tight. Windows? He didn't recommend Windows at all in this context. (Sorry, Microsoft.)

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  1. Re: Famous, where? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I think the point is to make him famous now, thanks to /. links.

  2. Windows, iOS, Android, surface, windows phone, ... by behrooz0az · · Score: 1

    And no linux? Why in the hell is this on slashdot then?

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  3. Re:Microsoft Beat Journalist by i+kan+reed · · Score: 1

    No, really, you should actually clarify your points. Not nearly enough said to even get more than "I don't like Microsoft" from it.

  4. Preston Gralla installing Firefox on Linux .. by codeusirae · · Score: 1

    "Installing Firefox 3.6 on Linux: Only Pros Need Apply"

    1. Re:Preston Gralla installing Firefox on Linux .. by H0p313ss · · Score: 1

      Was any part of that incorrect or misleading?

      Package management is possibly a Debian based distributions greatest strength, however if you want to be on the bleeding edge it does handcuff you.

      Similarly, try getting up to date versions of boost and ogre actually installed and be sure to report back so we can drink your tears.

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    2. Re:Preston Gralla installing Firefox on Linux .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      This is the same guy who wrote up a breathless preview of Window 7 proclaiming it the 'Linux Killer!' His credibility regarding Linux is naught but pure hysterics. His Dunning-Kruger effect confidence to post ignorant drivel as a 'valid smart computer person opinion' damages both his own reputation and Microsoft's, and he'd be best to shut the hell up on the topic and keep to that which he actually knows.

    3. Re:Preston Gralla installing Firefox on Linux .. by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 1

      As Sysadm1n said in that comments:
            'And what the heck is "Unbuntu"?'

      If the author can't even spell Ubuntu properly even AFTER someone points it out( comment is dated 01/22/2010), he is probably just astroturfing / fanboi of MS.

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    4. Re:Preston Gralla installing Firefox on Linux .. by H0p313ss · · Score: 1

      No disagreements, but would you honestly recommend Arch to lessor mortals?

      I've been using Linux since 0.9 and even I can't be bothered with it.

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  5. Re:Microsoft Beat Journalist by H0p313ss · · Score: 1

    Not nearly enough said to even get more than "I don't like Microsoft" from it.

    I'm pretty sure that was his whole point... though perhaps point is stretching it bit. How about, yes, that's what he's whining about.

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  6. Re: Famous, where? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Didn't you know, he's actually a comedian!
    http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/330846/Windows_7_The_Linux_killer

  7. Re: Famous, where? by Desler · · Score: 1

    I thought the bigger joke of that article was:

    Clearly, the future is in netbooks.

    Yeah, that panned out as expected.

  8. Re:Microsoft Beat Journalist by ozmanjusri · · Score: 1

    Not nearly enough said to even get more than "I don't like Microsoft" from it.

    I don't see anything about disliking Microsoft.

    The commenter was simply making it clear that Grallo is rarely more than a mouthpiece for a commercial entity, and far from being a journalist.

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  9. No kidding by HalAtWork · · Score: 2

    I don't think anyone has followed Microsoft since 1820. Partially because they'd be dead by now, and, oh yeah... Microsoft didn't exist until 1975. Very important detail.

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    1. Re:No kidding by RaceProUK · · Score: 1

      That sound you hear is the joke flying over your head.

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  10. Re: Famous, where? by Xest · · Score: 1

    Don't be harsh, it's probably the only site he could afford to self-publicise himself on.

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