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"What kind of business model is that, shoving ads in peoples' faces?" said one Microsoft intern, who asked not to be named. Doesn't Microsoft wish it had a big
by brown9-2 14y ago
"What kind of business model is that, shoving ads in peoples' faces?" said one Microsoft intern, who asked not to be named.
Doesn't Microsoft wish it had a big advertising business also?
- huggyface 14y agoThe whole thing sounds like a ridiculous PR piece. Microsoft is changing the world, I tell you, by trying to get a piece of the pie of someone changing the world.
- MikeCapone 14y agoThat's exactly my feeling as well. Looks like MSFT's PR people shadow-wrote this piece.
- focusfocusfocus 14y agoYou've made a strong allegation. Can you explain it, considering this statement at the end of the article? > (Reporting by Bill Rigby in Seattle; Editing by Jonathan Weber and Richard Chang)
- ryanhuff 14y agoThe writer is based in Seattle, and predominately writes on topics related to Washington state, including a healthy dose of Microsoft-related stories (not always rosy). http://blogs.reuters.com/bill-rigby http://blogs.reuters.com/bill-rigby
- MikeCapone 14y agoNo, I cannot prove it, that's why I said that "it looks like" that rather than "I have proof that it is" that.
- huggyface 14y agohttp://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html Have you read that? Even if the piece wasn't written by Microsoft's PR, the fact that it's written by someone with a heavily vested interest in the health of the Redmond colossus slants it in such a way that makes it generally worthless for those outside of Seattle.
- naner 14y agoI'd also like to add: "What kind of business model is that, extorting companies for using Linux?" I still get a very ant-competitive and anti-free-culture vibe from the place.
- rlu 14y agoI want to punch whoever said that and also the paragraph above it (where someone claims that the competition is going to die out or whatever). Makes all the interns look like fools.