Letter of the Week

By Doug Barney

Here goes:

You should moderate this “Doug Barney” character… or at least mark his articles more clearly as the OPINION / EDITORIAL columns that they are. I’m referring specifically to “Microsoft has A LOT of catching up to do.” and “Dell Makes PC Comeback, Good news in the workstation market.” Waaaayyyy too many incorrect / half-true statements in these articles, and presumed reader mindsets for a serious technical magazine. Why is Dell regaining ground over HP a good thing? Why does Microsoft have a lot of work to do when it’s the hardware vendors that write the drivers? Why should Microsoft buy a company that may or may not have a winning strategy (regardless of what Google did)? These articles are all fluff, with no evidence of knowledge of the topics presented, and with the overwhelming bias of the author clearly visible ... great way to piss a lot of people off (and tempt them to cancel their subscriptions to boot ...).

Anonymous

For the record, “Good News in the Workstation Market” referred to the fact that the market is growing, not that Dell is gaining.