Thu, 19/01/2012 - 9:21pm — Homer
Summary of the BBC's blatant Microsoft bias and anti-Linux bigotry:
- BBC blatantly lies about Windows Phone 7 "dominating" the smartphone market, even though it only has a 1.9% market share. (Ed: Jan 2016. Windows Phone is Dead. LOL!)
- BBC Censoring Open Source: BBC education reporter, Judith Burns, removes the phrase "open source" from education secretary's speech
- BBC sneers at Linux: BBC Click reporter, Microsoft evangelist and anti-Linux bigot, Spencer Kelly, refuses to name the Linux OS powering a new device at CES 2012, then sneers: "As you can see the operating system has been written especially for this tablet, because that's what I think the world needs, is yet another tablet operating system. But seriously... "
- Are children becoming 'digitally illiterate'?: BBC uses report on "ICT" to promote Microsoft Xbox, and inject FUD about the Raspberry Pi project
- Beeb slammed for 'fawning' to Bill Gates: "cringingly servile interview worthy of Uriah Heep"
- BBC's Vista advert: The BBC's blatant commercial advertising of Windows Vista, and endorsement of Microsoft's criminally anti-competitive business practices ~ "But Microsoft doesn't need to worry too much if people are put off by the cost of an upgrade. Vista will be preinstalled on almost all new computers, so they'll get the big sales anyway. That's the genius of Bill Gates' business" ~ Max Flint, BBC reporter (Ed: Jan 2016. Vista is now formally recognised as one of Microsoft's biggest failures)
- Slavish reporters join Microsoft in cloud cuckoo land: Microsoft's marketing propaganda "conscientiously relayed by [Rory] Cellan-Jones", BBC technology correspondent
- BBC pinches hot new columnist from Microsoft: BBC gives Bill Gates his own "column" to promote Microsoft's commercial products
- Stephen Fry's "frustration with the Microsoft bias within the BBC": BBC's Microsoft bias is a "self-fulfilling prophesy"
- BBC Trust & OSC: "The BBC Trust and the Open Source Consortium (OSC) have agreed the promotion of Microsoft by the BBC should end."
- BBC and Microsoft sign "agreement": Secretive "memorandum of understanding" signed during Microsoft's deceptive "Get The Facts" propaganda campaign
- Microsoft's infiltration of the BBC: "the iPlayer is not what it claimed to be, it is built top-to-bottom on a Microsoft-only stack, the BBC management team who are responsible for the iPlayer are a checklist of senior employees from Microsoft who were involved with Windows Media."
- The "cross-pollination of Microsoft and the BBC": Microsoft's former IPTV platform Mediaroom and Zune chief, Daniel Danker, infiltrates the BBC's Audio & Music, Vision, iPlayer, online search, and online products and services divisions
- Microsoft's £20 million bribe to the BBC: Undisclosed "funding compromised media objectivity"
- BBC's Chief Technology Officer, John Linwood, is a Microsoft mole: "John spent 11 years at Microsoft beginning as an Architectural Consultant in 1993 then progressing to occupy a variety of senior positions within its MSN business."
- BBC Corrupted: "Today the BBC made it official -- they have been corrupted by Microsoft."
