●●● From Techrights
IDC is an analyst firm owned by IDG. We wrote about the company's misconduct in the following posts.
●● 2007
Analyst Firms, Including IDC and Gartner, Named and Shamed for Serving as Microsoft Mouthpieces
Microsoft Fuels OpenDocument Disinformation with Funded Analyst Propaganda
Disinformation on the Rise, Shameless Linux FUD Makes a Comeback
●● 2008
IDC, Gartner and Yankee Group’s Latest Press Attack on Customer’s Competitors
IDG, IDC, and Microsoft Money on Their Table (Updated)
IDG/IDC Does Microsoft’s Revisionism to Deny Crimes
More on the Microsoft-IDG/IDC Connection
Al Gillen (IDC) Once Again Throws FUD at Free Software and GNU/Linux
Linux Foundation, Please Stop Feeding the Shills
IDC and Microsoft Negotiate the Results of Studies
Patently Absurd: Microsoft, BSA, IDC, Alsup, and Trend Micro
IDC Analyst Attacks ODF and Praises OOXML Ahead of Crucial Vote (Corrected)
●● 2009
It’s This Time of the Year Again: Time for BSA and IDC to Compare Us to Murderers
Quick Mention: More on IDC as “Gun for Hire”
Microsoft’s Jim Allchin: “I am Scared of GNU/Linux” (Analysts Cartel Part II)
GNU/Linux Market Share: Why Gartner and IDC Must be Ignored
Microsoft Pays IDC (Again) to Assist Government Lobbying
Resistance to Propaganda from Seattle and IDC; Microsoft Staff Makes a Move
Microsoft Already Uses IDC Study it Paid for to Further Digitally Colonise India and Portugal
IDC, Gartner, NPD, and Other Corruptible ‘Analysts’
Net Applications: the Big Lie, Boosted by IDC|IDG et al
IDG on IDC+BSA Deception, OpenOffice.org Growth, and Thoughts on ODF
Novell is Feeding the Shills-for-Hire from IDC
Microsoft Pays IDC for Disinformation, IDG (IDC) Covers the Results
Does Microsoft Use Its Sponsored IDC/BSA Study for Extortion Across the World?
Novell and the Linux Foundation Legitimise a Microsoft Shill (IDC|IDG)
Jim Allchin: “We Feel a Huge Threat from Linux” (Analysts Cartel Part IV)
●● 2010
Microsoft-funded IDC (IDG) Attacks GNU/Linux in Russian Schools, Accused of Using “Corrupt” Data
New IDC/BSA Propaganda for Microsoft and Other Proprietary Software Companies
IDG’s (IDC) Research So Bad Even Its Own People Complain About Its Output
●● 2011
When Analysts Are Bribed by Microsoft They Will Say Anything
What Can One Do When IDC Lies for Microsoft Money?
●● 2012
BSA and IDC Systematically Lie to the Public, Distort Press Coverage
●● 2013
Microsoft Partners IDC and Trustwave Spread GNU/Linux FUD
IDC Still Turns Data Into Microsoft Propaganda in Servers
http://techrights.org/2013/05/30/idc-data-vista-8-spin/ Fake ‘Studies’ for Vista 8 Grooming and Yet More IDC/IDG Pay-to-Say/Publication Collusion (Yes, Again)
http://techrights.org/2013/05/30/idc-data-vista-8-spin/
●● Concise Analysis
To give a short summary, IDC has been caught discussing the removal of a disclosure regarding funding (discussed with the funding source, which was unhappy with the outcome). IDC was also caught choosing specific and biased populations for its surveys, which is akin to rigging. IDG, the media company, promotes studies from IDC sometimes (this is self promotion) and its advertising budget/policies can easily effect the preferences/convictions of IDC, and vice versa. Lastly, IDC sometimes issues statements that are mutually contradictory, especially if two competing companies pay IDC in order to receive positive coverage. Ultimately, this means that IDC is making large sums of money fueling both sides of an issue, making money from both in exchange for endorsements that CIOs take seriously.
We have provided specific examples, included one where Microsoft hired IDC in order to belittle GNU/Linux. This was not an independent study and its goal was very clear from the start. IDC also routinely delivers (jointly with the BSA) indefensible propaganda for the software and media industry, fabricating numbers by quantifying perceived lost from items that are infinitely duplicable. This puts in doubt claims of noble honesty.
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