“Who’s the better ballot-stuffer, penguin heads or Windows
freaks?“
“That may have been a better question than the one MSNBC posted
over the weekend, asking its readers to rate the “Best Operating
System….”
“Microsoft supporters deny that the software giant has any
influence over MSNBC’s news coverage, and insist that it was
actually the Linux users who tried to stuff the ballot box.”
“MSNBC and Microsoft were unavailable for immediate and official
comment but an MSNBC associate who requested anonymity claims that
the “odd swing in the votes was just a system correction to reflect
the real results.'”
“‘Linux Today had told all its readers to go over to the site
and vote for Linux,’ the MSNBC associate said. ‘And it appears that
a substantial number of them voted several times. The system was a
bit slow in sorting out the valid votes from the not-valid ones.
But there was nothing unethical going on.'”
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
LinuxToday is a trusted, contributor-driven news resource supporting all types of Linux users. Our thriving international community engages with us through social media and frequent content contributions aimed at solving problems ranging from personal computing to enterprise-level IT operations. LinuxToday serves as a home for a community that struggles to find comparable information elsewhere on the web.
Property of TechnologyAdvice. © 2025 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved
Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.