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It turns out that there are multiple groups of people at Microsoft and these factions aren’t all in agreement all the time. I’m sure that there are plenty of t
by wayneftw 6y ago
It turns out that there are multiple groups of people at Microsoft and these factions aren’t all in agreement all the time.
I’m sure that there are plenty of those at Microsoft that disagree with telemetry and updates that you can’t opt out of. I would bet that many of them are in the developer division.
- mikro2nd 6y agoIt doesn't matter that there are multiple groups with differing opinions at MS or at any other organisation. The organisation acts as a organism (or, if you prefer, as a set of emergent behaviours). It is, for all practical purposes, a single entity. So ascribing a behaviour or a wish or a bias to "Microsoft" is an entirely valid generalisation. Generalisations are only bad when applied to isolated/differentiated components/constituents of a compound body.
- wayneftw 6y agoOh okay, well that explains everything. So which other group on the same order of magnitude of Microsoft's 150,000 employees do you know of that exhibits the same kind of decisiveness that would normally be attributed to a single entity?
- wizzwizz4 6y agoFacebook is the first that comes to mind, followed by Twitter (the "other social media company" in my mind, even though Reddit's bigger).
- wayneftw 6y agoDidn’t a bunch of Facebook employees stage a walk out last month? What are some examples of these companies acting incomplete unison at all times?
- ptx 6y agoAll the groups and individual ultimately have to take orders from the top, so if we decide to trust some particual group full of wonderful people, that group will be powerless to stop management from later (when it becomes profitable) betraying that trust.