With Windows Phone 7, Did Microsoft Actually Bring A Gun To A Gun Fight?

Re:With Windows Phone 7, Did Microsoft Actually Bring A Gun ... by stcredzero on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @10:02AM (#1783391)

Using M$ is pretty much a defacto ad hominem - it means you're leading your position by saying 'Microsoft only care about money'

What we have here is a de-facto "putting words into other people's mouths." What that means to me is, "Microsoft, who has money." It was meant in an informal and not a slur. In any case, how in the world can you be "ad hominem" against a corporation?

Where in my comment, or in my entire history of comments is there any kind of sentiment of the kind you describe. If anything, my position towards Microsoft has always been, "they're clueless about UX."

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Re:With Windows Phone 7, Did Microsoft Actually Bring A Gun ... by NickPollard on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @10:19AM (#1783445)

I am sorry if I misinterpreted you, but prior to this instance I have only ever seen 'M$' used in a derogatory fashion. Regardless, I feel that it doesn't add anything to the discussion that just saying 'MS' or 'Microsoft' would have.

As an aside, I don't see anything strange about an ad hominem against a corporation, it's still an attack against the source of the argument and not the argument itself. Plus, a corporation is after all a legal person.

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Re:With Windows Phone 7, Did Microsoft Actually Bring A Gun ... by stcredzero on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @12:40PM (#1783973)

Regardless, I feel that it doesn't add anything to the discussion that just saying 'MS' or 'Microsoft' would have.

I am glad you admitted your putting words into my mouth. Let me note that this resulted in quite a few meta-comments! I could not let your mischaracterization go unchallenged. Note also that your mischaracterization is itself a meta-comment. Had it not been written in the first place, it would have benefitted the S/N ratio of HN dramatically!

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