Do those sites claim to be objective news networks? Because, with a name like "MacWorld" I have to assume it's a site about Apple products, right?
Is MSNBC a news network about Microsoft products? Because that would explain a lot.
Perhaps I need more caffeine. I appear to have inadvertently awakened the MAC/PC wars, which was not my intent. I had hoped to point out one of the many corruptions of the network formally owned by Microsoft.
Yup, passions tend to run hot in the technoweenie universe
Neal Boortz, Erik Erikson and Herman Cain all do radio shows from WSB, which is owned by CNN. They don't exactly toe the parent company line. I assume at least some of the folks at MSNBC have the same freedom.
Didn't Microsoft sell their stake in MSNBC to GE several years ago, and didn't GE then turn round and sell MSNBC/NBC/Universal to Comcast was it just last year? And before that, didn't Microsoft also sell their stake in Comcast?
In any case, if you want a more “objective”(if that's the word) look at Windows 8 versus iPad, here is an article on CNN(which Microsoft has never had a stake in before), essentially bringing up points along the same lines as as the MSNBC article. The article was originally written in Wired magazine, an news outlet that is, if anything, notorious for its anti-Microsoft bias going back years, and on that record, should be hostile to Windows 8:
Five ways Windows 8 is better than iOS and Android
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/01/tech/mobile/windows-better-ios-android/index.html