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To be honest, that sounds like every company that suffers from delusions of grandeur and wants to conquer the planet, one way or another. What you're saying is
by diggan 2y ago
To be honest, that sounds like every company that suffers from delusions of grandeur and wants to conquer the planet, one way or another.
What you're saying is equally true for Apple, Google, Amazon and most other public companies today. You're never gonna get "Use this Microsoft product" as an answer from Apple support/engineer even if that product would solve your particular problem better.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 2y agoThe conferences always included representatives from other large, public companies in the same or similar industries, e.g., Apple or Amazon, as well as other, different industries. But there was always something cult-like about the folks from Microsoft, their level of BS and (deliberate?) ignorance, that I never experienced with the others. To be clear, I could not make the same comment about Apple or Amazon businesspeople. While they may exhibit their own stigmatic qualities, they are, IME, different. Nothing like Microsoft. Microsoft does not suffer from "delusions of grandeur". It achieved grandeur a long time ago, and then became delusional. Currently, it is either #1 or #2 on the list of the world's wealthiest companies. Comments suggesting that the company has "changed", and such comments have been popular on HN in recent years, are quite amusing.