People Trust Microsoft More Than AOL
from the and-my-big-brother-can-beat-up-your-big-brother dept
A new study shows that more people don't trust AOL than don't trust Microsoft. My response is: who cares? You shouldn't trust either of them. They both have pretty bad track records, and haven't done much to show that they're even trying to improve them. Of course, there could be some useful info in the study to folks at Microsoft who think that people are going to happily give up their credit cards to the .NET altar. People aren't very comfortable doing so (nor should they be).
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