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Microsoft's Favourite Pay-to-Say 'Analyst' Firm Has Just Collapsed

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 06, 2025

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'Analysts' that helped propel Microsoft to fictional values akin to Ponzi schemes

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So the Gartner Group is collapsing. Why is it still around at all? Because companies like IBM, Oracle and Microsoft pay it a lot of money to tell the media lies. To tell businesses lies. To manipulate Wall Street. That is exactly what Gartner Group "analysts" do, except for lobbying and sabotage.

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Is Waggener Edstrom next? How long can a lie go on for and how far will it travel?

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Microsoft has mass layoffs not because of "investment in hey hi" but because of massive debt. The storytelling cannot add up. █

because of massive debt

The storytelling cannot add up

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"Ideally, use of the competing technology becomes associated with mental deficiency, as in, "he believes in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and OS/2." Just keep rubbing it in, via the press, analysts, newsgroups, whatever. Make the complete failure of the competition's technology part of the mythology of the computer industry. We want to place selection pressure on those companies and individuals that show a genetic weakness for competitors' technologies, to make the industry increasingly resistant to such unhealthy strains, over time."

--Microsoft, internal document [PDF]

“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.”

--Microsoft, internal document [PDF]

"In honor of the event, Pam Edstrom, who had since left Microsoft to cofound her own agency, Waggener Edstrom, and handle Microsoft's PR from the outside, sponsored a "Windows Roast." Gathered at the Alexis Park Resort in Las Vegas, Gates and Ballmer made fun of themselves and not so subtly apologized for the Windows delays. "To Dream the Impossible Dream" was the theme song playing in the background. With three hundred analysts and members of the press invited to these festivities where Gates and Ballmer let it all hang out, it was another coup for "Gates's Keeper." Gates joked that Ballmer had insisted, " 'We just gotta cut features.' He came up with this idea that we could rename this thing Microsoft Window—and we would have shipped that thing a long time ago."

--Barbarians Led by Bill Gates, a book composed by Pam's daughter

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