Paul Boutin on Slate’s curious unwillingness through 2005 to publish a disclaimer about its relationship with Microsoft:
A concise but unambiguous “No one at Microsoft dictates, edits, approves or redacts a word of what we write about their Swiss-cheese software or its over-evangelized competitors” would’ve probably sufficed to put tech readers at ease.
Robert McLaws on Microsoft’s decision to kill WinFS as a standalone project, as announced by Quentin Clark of the WinFS team:
Hey, I chug the Kool-Aid from a freakin beer bong here, but even I have to say that Microsoft’s putting a PR spin on this albatross that probably isn’t going to fly. “it’s not dead… it lives on in productized form in Katmai!” Yeah, and Bob lived on to become Clippy.
Rick Mahn, after installing a stack of pre-release software from Microsoft:
Ah, Microsoft beta software. Applications you love to hate… wait a minute. This stuff actually works!
Ed Bott 