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> I actually disagree. Of course you disagree because it's your job. Satya Nadella himself makes sure you try to sway the opinion here in favor of your company

> I actually disagree. Of course you disagree because it's your job. Satya Nadella himself makes sure you try to sway the opinion here in favor of your company [0]: "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..." Hint: criticizing Linux in such a heavy-handed way won't work that well. [0 ]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/events/FY-2019/earnings-fy-2019-q1.aspx https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/events/FY-2019/earn...

md8z 5y ago
Please don't be so cynical. I don't work for Microsoft, I've been using Linux for about 20 years and I haven't used Windows seriously in about that long, and I agree entirely with her comment. Once you go adding all the things to Linux that Windows users want, it starts to look a lot like Windows in more than one way...
filmgirlcw 5y ago
Actually, that isn't my job. In fact, very few comments I have made on HN have ever had any association with what I actually do -- and that is by design. I don't speak for my employer, and I'm certainly not astroturfing here. Hint: Being a jerk to people online using a random account makes you look like an asshole.
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
  I'm not talking about you specifically, but Microsoft employees in general that Nadella says are working hard in order to sway the opinion of HN users towards you ("you" meaning again not you personally but your company). EDIT: To clarify: I don't know how this works in practice, I assumed accounts explicitly identified as belonging to Microsoft employees are used, so that Nadella can open HN in the morning and assess the efficacy of your (plural) advocacy efforts. That's why I initially not excluded you could be one of these people as you have introduced yourself as an advocacy person at Microsoft. Now that you said you are not, I see no reason not to believe you. But it doesn't invalidate the fact that other Microsoft employees are trying to game HN and that this activity is very important for your CEO.

md8z 5y ago

Please don't be so cynical. I don't work for Microsoft, I've been using Linux for about 20 years and I haven't used Windows seriously in about that long, and I agree entirely with her comment. Once you go adding all the things to Linux that Windows users want, it starts to look a lot like Windows in more than one way...

filmgirlcw 5y ago

Actually, that isn't my job. In fact, very few comments I have made on HN have ever had any association with what I actually do -- and that is by design. I don't speak for my employer, and I'm certainly not astroturfing here. Hint: Being a jerk to people online using a random account makes you look like an asshole.

hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
I'm not talking about you specifically, but Microsoft employees in general that Nadella says are working hard in order to sway the opinion of HN users towards you ("you" meaning again not you personally but your company). EDIT: To clarify: I don't know how this works in practice, I assumed accounts explicitly identified as belonging to Microsoft employees are used, so that Nadella can open HN in the morning and assess the efficacy of your (plural) advocacy efforts. That's why I initially not excluded you could be one of these people as you have introduced yourself as an advocacy person at Microsoft. Now that you said you are not, I see no reason not to believe you. But it doesn't invalidate the fact that other Microsoft employees are trying to game HN and that this activity is very important for your CEO.