Question: Does it matter? There's nothing in the site guidelines preventing someone from talking about their own product or service, and half of HN is basically

Question: Does it matter? There's nothing in the site guidelines preventing someone from talking about their own product or service, and half of HN is basically just that. As long as it caters to HN readers (which a technical documentation site more than does) then why does it matter the reasoning behind the post? Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft. I was not aware of any "PR push", I stumbled upon the story on the front page.