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I always snigger at the formula of Microsoft's public statements. You just know that in the first paragraph it will claim - disingenuously - to be doing the exa
by camperman 10y ago
I always snigger at the formula of Microsoft's public statements. You just know that in the first paragraph it will claim - disingenuously - to be doing the exact opposite of whatever it's accused of. And sure enough the very first sentence is:
"Microsoft is focused on helping enterprises manage their environment while giving people choice in the apps and devices they use to be productive across work and life."
You can take this sentence, and without knowing any other details at all, figure out that the company is somehow preventing enterprises from managing their environments properly or restricting app and device choice or both.
- CaptSpify 10y agoI find this true of most company taglines. "We have the highest rated customer service" = We have shitty customer service. I think the people who write this stuff are usually presented with "Here's the bad parts of our reputation. Make sure your blurb fixes that"
- tokensimian 10y agoProbably something like, "we took a survey. Here's what our customers / prospects said is important to them." If a company has poor customer service, byzantine purchase process, etc., that stuff will crop up. Then again, so will all the standard things -- trust, etc.
- samstave 10y agoI am more interested in learning how much the person who crafted that sentence was paid..... :)
- userbinator 10y ago"giving people choice" = "giving people the choices we made" This sort of doublespeak is not restricted to Microsoft. About "choice" and freedom/personalisation in general, Mozilla is the other one that comes to mind with this amazing article: https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2014/02/11/publisher-transformation-with-users-at-the-center/ https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2014/02/11/publish...