This feels like a start difference with how Ars handled their recent mistake.

While I don’t use Windows or read PCWorld, I find this, depressingly, refreshing and I appreciate owning one’s mistakes. Publicly and unabashedly, without mincing words.

A graceful gesture, but if they are going to do this kind of backflip every time Microsoft raise a trial balloon, they're going to spend a lot of time apologizing.