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● 01.03.09

●● IDC and Microsoft Negotiate the Results of Studies

Posted in Deception, FUD, Microsoft at 9:38 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

FOR reasons that we mentioned in the past, the Gartner Group utterly lacks credibility. It negotiates its output with companies that are also its clients. IDC is very much the same, as we pointed out before. Sadly, IDC is not just an analyst firm as it also owns lots and lots of media outlets, which are of course biased (they rely on funding, e.g. through advertising or contracts) and it sometimes goes as far as historical revisionism.

=> Gartner Group utterly lacks credibility | negotiates its output with companies that are also its clients | of course biased | historical revisionism

Here is an another antitrust exhibit which shows an IDC report being mailed to Microsoft for review before being published [PDF]. The mail says: “I hate to put it like this, but at this point, IDC is done negotiating with us. We have moved them quite a bit already, but they are now holding the line, saying that if we want the names of their ‘big’ analysts on the report this is it.”

=> ↺ IDC report being mailed to Microsoft for review before being published

Why is there wiggling room anyway?

This may be less of a ‘smoking gun’ than this one [PDF], where Microsoft is removing the sponsorship from an IDC study. We wrote about it over a year ago. Responsible for that FUD was also Peter Galli, a former reporter who now reports directly to Microsoft. █

=> ↺ this one | over a year ago | reports directly to Microsoft

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