Jim Murphy – wait for it – covers Microsoft too and is even more prolific than Silver. We’re guessing that Silver knows Microsoft’s products well and has direct involvement with the company.Īnd, sure enough, he appears a number of times on Microsoft’s own site and thousands of times in stories about Microsoft. Microsoft happens to do lots of business with Gartner and also happens to have a client-software monopoly. Silver is Gartner’s vice president in charge of client computing. If the paper would prefer not to quote an analyst who has experience with a client, it did a poor job. Just days after banning Enderle from discussing Microsoft because he has Microsoft as a client, the Times quoted Gartner analyst Michael Silver and AMR Research analyst Jim Murphy in a story about Microsoft’s Windows and Office software. NY Times bans Microsoft analysts from Microsoft stories We have covered this so many time before (see citations above), but to focus on Michael Silver for a moment, consider these: This is how Gartner views the credibility of the new openness…. It speaks about the bias:īusinessweek (Jennifer L Schenker) quoted Gartner analyst Michael Silver last week who puts OOXML in a wider commercial perspective… talks about Michael Silver, but it does not seem to realise who this guy is. The following new example will be joining many other examples and compelling proof that exposes a large-scale phenomenon called “shill analysts”, or abbreviated “shillnalysts”. “Analysts sell out – that’s their business model… But they are very concerned that they never look like they are selling out, so that makes them very prickly to work with.” Posted in Deception, Mandriva, Microsoft, Open XML at 1:13 am by Dr. 03.03.08 Gemini version available ♊︎ Microsoft Sends Its Friend ‘Analyst’ Michael Silver to Bat for OOXML?
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