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Summary: A Microsoft intern, who has moved on to journalism, is still showing his affinity for Microsoft with apologetics and spin

Zack Whittaker, formerly Microsoft staff in the UK who is now writing for ZDNet (a CBS-owned technology tabloid), keeps attacking Microsoft's rivals. It's an habitual thing.

The other day he tossed some FUD at Android (yet again) and repeated Microsoft's classic talking points (which its boosters had all uniformly spread several months ago). "This year alone," he wrote, "Google disclosed two security flaws in Microsoft's software, leaving the software giant fuming. The security team gave Microsoft three months to fix the flaw, or face public shaming." The article is titled "Google has an Android security problem" and it's trying to portray Google -- not Microsoft -- as the problem.

Microsoft was trying to blame Google, so here again we have Whittaker defending Microsoft (his former employer) and shaming Google for revealing how Microsoft exposed users. It's not hard to find Microsoft bias in sites like ZDNet. All one has to check is where CBS is hiring from. This is a widespread problem as many people from Microsoft (some still working for Microsoft) are writers at ZDNet. ⬆