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Microsoft shill - Michael Gannotti - names top ten 10 Windows Mobile apps - an exercise in insincerity
December 28, 2009 [General] | By Edward J. R.

Michael Gannotti works for Microsoft where he evangelizes, through videos, various enterprise software of Microsoft. Lately he got a gig from Windows Mobile division:

... and in this gig, he has been posting on official Windows blog (covering both desktop and mobile versions) - "windowsteamblog.com" - about his "top 10" Windows Mobile apps, or, to be precise, his own "top 10". Normally we wouldn't pay attention about what shills of Microsoft are blogging, but he has been blogging it not on his personal blog, but on main blog of Windows, both mobile and desktop!

So what are top 10 apps of Michael Gannotti ? Well, here we go:
  1. Microsoft Bing (what? again this stupidity with promoting Microsoft's own apps? not third party developers? not fair!)
  2. LiveMedia GPS by IncaX
  3. Twikini (this is the best Twitter client, not moTweets? maybe it has something to do with the fact that he knows personally people from Trinket Software? No, that couldn't be! Or could it?)
  4. Microsoft Tag (there is no limit to shilling of this guy! again Microsoft app!)
  5. Glympse (right, so Foursquare app for Windows Mobile is not available, so he is proposing some similar service but inferior one - clever move!)
  6. Windows Live (that's not funny: again Microsoft app; come on!)
  7. MySpace (what? MySpace is over, now it's all about Twitter and a bit about Facebook, but MySpace? Give us a break, Mr. Gannotti!)
  8. MyPhone (another app from Microsoft! this guy has no shame)
  9. AP Mobile (alright, maybe he doesn't know of existence of RSS readers)
  10. Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile (it has "shilling" written all over it; oh brother!)
See also: the top 10 of Microsoft shill blog item.

Conclusion: Microsoft has done it again: a shill promoting Windows Mobile. He even is using the term "fruitphone" in some of his videos, the term that we have coined in our podcasts (maybe he is listening?), but it looks like he is missing any sincerity. Well, at least he is employed by Microsoft (albeit by different division than Windows Mobile = a division that is succesful) so he is getting good money for his shilling ...


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