Natal named in 10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2009 by Popular Mechanics

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MikeB said:

Ausfalcon said:

MikeB said:

I think if Microsoft would be an Iranian company, the company would have received a lot more bashing for its wrongdoings. IMO Microsoft has been handled very mildly considering events. I don't think Sony or any other Japanese company would have been able to bypass RROD or antitrust issues like Microsoft was able to.

American car companies usually get more bad press in America than their Korean or Japanese counterparts.  Similarly I've never seen anything to suggest that the American and UK press cut Microsoft a break because they are American.  Yet you keep insisting that their is a US/UK press conspiracy against Sony and in favor of Microsoft.  You've previously never justified why in the past, now you imply its for some patriotic reason.  Meanwhile US press on the Walkman, Trinitron technology, the PS2 etc never got accused of being purposefully slanted like you say coverage is now.  The reality is that you just can't agree with any views on the PS3 that are not your own.

With the antitrust case proceedings under former president Bill Clinton for instance it looked afterwards like Microsoft got a get out of jail for free card under fromer President Bush. Of course Microsoft heavily funded Bush' campaign, which in most democratic countries would be illegal.

It's not just that Microsoft is a US company, the bulk of companies which testified against Microsoft's monopoly abuse were American. But I think if most of them were European there wouldn't even have been investigations in the United States in the first place.

We were not talking about government administrations and how they dealt with Microsoft over the years.  You said the US must really love MS for it to get good press on Natal.  And previously you have said there is a US/UK press conspiracy to bolster MS and put down Sony.  Are you saying that both sets of press act under the orders of former or current U.S. Presidents?  You still have never addressed all the good press given to Sony on many of its past efforts (save Betamax perhaps) and all the current bad press given to multiple Microsoft product lines such as Vista and Zune.  In a nutshell you have not justified your theory at all.  Understand?