Microsoft has enlisted (paid) a list of spokesbloggers in the technology field to promote their new operating system Vista. The best way to promote a system is to get the well known heads of technology websites to begin posting blogs for them. One of the more well known bloggers that is doing this is Michael Arrington out of TechCrunch that has declined all comments about this. This is happening in news of recent events that Google is trying to sue Microsoft for Vista not being compatible with many third party products and many users having to buy the subpar versions of their favorite software from Microsoft. Another event that will happen soon is the release of Macintosh’s new operating system, Leopard that is truly worrying to Windows because Macintosh is the biggest competitor to the Windows operating system.

This is an outrage that Microsoft is doing this. They are purchasing bloggers to promote a faulty system. This may influence some people to buy it but every operating system that Microsoft launches is full of holes in the first year. These bloggers are throwing away their pride to help Microsoft, and going against their principles. When paid blogging (payperpost) was announced, they created their own initiatives to report these people. This is called “being a hypocrite”; the dictionary definition from the Merriam Webster goes as follow: hypocrite:

a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, esp. one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.

All I have to say is that Microsoft is working hard to promote themselves as the good guy that have a horrible system but paying bloggers to forgo their beliefs only reinforces that Microsoft is pure evil.

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