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Microsoft Caught Rigging ZD Net Poll 768
Dj writes "Microsoft have been found to be rigging a ZDNet
poll". Apparently they didn't dig on the idea of .NET losing.
Of course as anyone knows, never trust an online poll because this
sort of stuff is obviosly happening all the time. I just wonder how
many comments posted around the net are posted with the same
goals in mind.
Re:hmmm. no suprise here (Score:3, Informative)
Several of the voters evidently followed a link contained in an email, the subject line of which ran: "PLEASE STOP AND VOTE FOR
Re:Did Microsoft bother... (Score:5, Informative)
Our company has 40k employees and whenever there is a big poll somewhere involving any of our products, a memo is sent out to the entire company telling everyone to go vote for our products.
Needless to say, even a portion of that 40,000 can drastically change the skew of a poll.
I always vote for a competitor because I find it detestible that my employer would do this.
Re:Hohum (Score:2, Informative)
LEPP
Re:Hohum (Score:2, Informative)
Seriously, people need to read the articles before posting.
Re:Did Microsoft bother... (Score:2, Informative)
let's keep the anti-ms raving directed and on topic.
Re:Interesing 'privacy' note... (Score:2, Informative)
There is a note about this (Score:3, Informative)
Poll Results
On 21 December, ZDNet posted a story [zdnet.co.uk] reporting the preliminary results of this poll, which showed a large majority of respondents who said they planned to deliver applications via Web services by the end of 2002 favoured Java for the job. At the time, Java outranked
Re:So why didn't ZDnet pull the poll? (Score:4, Informative)
The new test reads thus:
Re:So why didn't ZDnet pull the poll? - THEY DID. (Score:2, Informative)
"On 21 December, ZDNet posted a story reporting the preliminary results of this poll, which showed a large majority of respondents who said they planned to deliver applications via Web services by the end of 2002 favoured Java for the job. At the time, Java outranked
Re:Well (Score:2, Informative)