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Black Screen of Death Outfit Slammed by Users
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Posted by Donster on: 2009-12-03 16:36:02 212
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This article is an UPDATE to the story "Windows 7 Black Screen of Death? (It's not as bad as it sounds)" posted here at CSIM on Tuesday
By Andrew Thomas @ TG Daily
Prevx has apologized to Microsoft for its dire warnings of the Black Screen of Death being taken 'out of context'. In a blog post yesterday, Prevx CEO Mel Morris put on his best hair shirt and wrote:
"Regrettably, it is clear that our original blog post has been taken out of context and may have caused an inconvenience for Microsoft. This was never our intention and we have already apologised to Microsoft."
So that's alright then. Post a complete load of crap on your blog, knowing that the total lack of objectivity in what passes for IT journalism these days will guarantee unrivalled press exposure because it's cool to diss Microsoft.
National newspapers, TV news programs (and the BBC), bloggists and tech mags that really should have known better fall over themselves to bleat that the sky is falling.
Then when Microsoft points out that the number of users affected by the global pandemic was, err, three (3) slightly confused-sounding people on TechNet, rather than your claimed 'millions', publish an apology.
Meanwhile loads of gullible idiots will have downloaded your free patch for the non-existent problem and if only a few of them sign up for your paid-for services, you're still up on the deal.
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I apologize to our readers for being one of those "that really should have known better" by posting the "Windows 7 Black Screen of Death?" news item.
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