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JoeTheBro said:

I'm not joking, I'm being unbiased. Most people hate Pachter because he says things we don't want, not because he's out of the loop. Also he is just one of many insiders that haven't said this.

Paul Thurrot has more connections inside Microsoft that are more willing to speak to him than they are to Michael Pachter.  When you're one out of 100,000 people participating in a beta to get invited to Redmond for a product launch, when you're a Windows MVP, when you've worked on as many products as a beta tester as he has, and when you have a site that benefits Micorosft Windows and it's users, you're gonna have inside connects.