Weather is very hot around blogosphere even in Mainstream due to controversial Acer Ferrari loaded with Windows Vista gifts to 90 bloggers courtesy of Microsoft and AMD. Most of the hot air spilling, accusing Microsoft of trying to buy off bloggers. But honestly I didn’t find it any different then Apple’s giveaway to bloggers to blog in their blog few months ago. On the contrary in my opinion this was more honest way to encourage bloggers share their own opinion about the products. The e-mail sent to bloggers are almost similar to this one—

I’d love to send you a loaded Ferrari 1000 courtesy of Windows Vista and AMD. Are you interested?

This would be a review machine, so I’d love to hear your opinion on the machine and OS. Full disclosure, while I hope you will tell others about your experience with the pc, you don’t have to. Also, you are welcome to send the machine back to us after you are done playing with it, or you can give it away to your community, or you can keep it. Just let me know your opinion on Windows Vista and what you plan to do with it when the time comes.

I don’t find anything fishy with their approach, they didn’t even say the blogger have to give opinion, nor they said they review machine is exclusively giveaway for opinion. The decision was solely upon the blogger who received it, and what he/she will going to do it. On the other Hand Apple did gave Duo-core laptop to bloggers who blogged in their blog as mystery blogger.So one company giving laptop saying it’s up to you what you want to do, another company gave laptop for blogging in their blog (Means using bloggers image/attraction to publicize their own blog). Which one is much more fishy?

Don’t say I am advocating Microsoft. I am a dual user like a lot of others, I run both Mac and Windows in my computers. In future maybe I will shift to Vista if Mac OSX Leopard fail to impress me, vice versa I may as well shift to Mac OSX fully if Vista become too costly (Vista price + upgrading cost). So that’s not the point, I admire both OS, I use whichever fits my needs, under conditions.

Point is Giving away review products wasn’t new, a lot of company used to give review products even before social networking born. Off course you seriously don’t expect every blogger to buy every new products in order to review do you? There is a big difference between theories and assumptions derived from collected data, and practical tests. In my opinion practical test of a products can only grantee 100% accurate review of a product. So someone have to sponsor those products, who else do you expect to sponsor rather then the producer of the product itself?

I love social networking and blogging era, but at some point I got fed up with some tendency practiced here. The tendency to make everything controversial, whether it is or not, and more importantly if the subject organization is top-notch.