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Someone needs to tell the author that Microsoft isn’t headquartered in Silicon Valley.
by oculusthrift 9y ago
Someone needs to tell the author that Microsoft isn’t headquartered in Silicon Valley.
- dang 9y ago"Silicon Valley" has unfortunately become clickbait. We replaced the title with a representative sentence from the article.
- Pica_soO 9y agoMicrosoft is still in grunge-town?
- cooper12 9y agoIt's case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy. Silicon Valley is no longer just a physical place, but also represents the tech industry itself in popular imagination. Also, while the article is centered on Microsoft, I think the title is meant to be general, as shown by this passage: > The project represents a much wider effort to build a new breed of computing system that is truly conversational. At companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Salesforce as well as Microsoft...
- kurthr 9y agoI was going to just brush this off as silly, but then thought of all the NewYork things that you see around (NY Bagels, NY Fashion, etc) and realize they suffer at least as much... so I can almost forgive the NYT.