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> recently revealed work that Microsoft has being doing in swaying opinion on hacker news I'd love a link. Unfortunately "microsoft and hacker<anything>" get'
by pkilgore 5y ago
> recently revealed work that Microsoft has being doing in swaying opinion on hacker news
I'd love a link. Unfortunately "microsoft and hacker<anything>" get's swallowed up in search results by recent attack news.
- fartcannon 5y agohttps://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-corp-msft-q1-2019-005545657.html https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-corp-msft-q1-201... "In fact, this morning, I was reading a news article in Hacker News, which is a community where we have been working hard to make sure that Azure is growing in popularity and I was pleasantly surprised to see that we have made a lot of progress..."
- ajcp 5y agoRecently? This article is over 2.5 years old...
- pkilgore 5y agoThanks! Hard to read much into that call other than Microsoft folks 1) Read Hacker News and 2) Are targeting it as an audience for which they would like to be more popular in. You had made it sound like some sort of coordinated astroturfing operation.