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December 2nd 13, 06:12 AM
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Why does Microsoft want to be hated?
It is clearly a corporate strategy. By why?
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December 2nd 13, 03:30 PM
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Why does Microsoft want to be hated?
On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 22:12:28 -0800 (PST), Davej wrote:
| It is clearly a corporate strategy. By why? It just seems that way. I think it's caused by their utter inability to grasp why people don't eagerly accept their having such superior intelligence as to know far better than we do what we really want and need. Larc
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December 2nd 13, 09:08 PM
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Why does Microsoft want to be hated?
On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 10:30:43 -0500, Larc wrote:
On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 22:12:28 -0800 (PST), Davej wrote: | It is clearly a corporate strategy. By why? It just seems that way. I think it's caused by their utter inability to grasp why people don't eagerly accept their having such superior intelligence as to know far better than we do what we really want and need. The same criticism was levelled at IBM in the 1960s. History repeating itself? -- Robin Bignall Herts, England
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December 3rd 13, 07:12 PM
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Why does Microsoft want to be hated?
"Davej" wrote in message
... It is clearly a corporate strategy. By why? Because (in some markets) being loved or hated has no effect on profitability, and the corporate goals are growth and profits, not love. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
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December 11th 13, 09:34 PM
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Why does Microsoft want to be hated?
On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 1:12:18 PM UTC-6, Don Phillipson wrote:
"Davej" wrote: It is clearly a corporate strategy. By why? Because (in some markets) being loved or hated has no effect on profitability, and the corporate goals are growth and profits, not love. My favorites of the moment: The pointless, idiotic, and counter-productive MSOffice UI redesigns, the default hiding of file extensions, default hiding of "excess" notifications, and the "expand the window if it touches the edge of the screen" facepalm.
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