[thelist] Microsoft, the inventor of XML!

>Well, here's something I didn't know :-)
>
>What are these guys smoking?
>
>From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19908-2000May6.html:

This bit showed up earlier on an xml mailing list...

Someone said they checked into it and found (no surprise) it was the 
reporter's error.  duh.

Many people assumed they had read something accurate and immediately 
wanted to jump all over Microsoft.

We need to be REALLY REALLY skeptical about what we read in 
mainstream media, especially when it comes to tech issues. 
Journalists have been known to misquote people and unintentionally 
misrepresent situations in such a way that have really hurt people.

Another example of weak tech coverage: the reports I heard & read the 
first day of the "ILOVEYOU" virus: the word was that the virus gets 
into your EMAIL and affects COMPUTER systems.  In mainstream media, 
you really had to dig to find out it was OUTLOOK and WINDOWS systems. 
Most reports didn't mention that (minor  detail?!) at all.

Our governments, our journalists, our mainstream are still in the 
dark about computers in general and the web in particular.  And if 
they can't get this right, how much do you think they get right when 
it comes to world news and other issues of life and death?

Pity the poor fools, but don't neglect to give them hell.

Erika

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>"Ballmer hopes to build Microsoft's new identity partly around a computing
>language known as XML. Invented several years ago by two Microsoft
>technologists, it allows easy exchange of information among different
>devices, across the Internet."
>
>XML isn't even a computing language, whatever the hell that is. I gave them
>an earful (I think... I just sent a blind email since I couldn't find a
>contact email address ANYWHERE... at least their consitant with their
>irresponsibility).
>
>Holding back,
>
>--
>mattwarden
>mattwarden.com

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