[Ipg-smz] For folks who say the new Microsoft is different from the old Microsoft

[Tom Henderson]

After covering Microsoft since roughly 1983, I side with Phil. The 
preponderance of ugly corporate misdeeds doesn't excuse the individual 
ones.

Complexity is someone else's problem. That it's war and 3D chess ignores 
and attempts to apologize for the reality of boorishness and malcontent 
exuded by Microsoft and others. Sometimes they make good products. They 
fought tooth and nail & hook and crook to anneal themselves to business 
desktop environments.

It's therefore little surprise that they would bribe their way to keep 
clawed to their feudal clientele. Single brush? I giggle, as Phil might.

Tom


On 7/23/19 11:45 AM, VM Brasseur via Ipg-smz wrote:
> C'mon, Phil. You know better than this.
>
> All very large companies (and most small) have both bad and good 
> pockets within them. It's possible and advisable to hold them 
> accountable for the former while still lauding them for the latter.
>
> Painting the entire company with a single brush shows fault with the 
> criticizer, not with the critiqued and wilfully ignores the complexity 
> of the situation.
>
> --V
>
> On 7/22/19 4:01 PM, Phil Shapiro via Ipg-smz wrote:
>>
>> https://www.reseller.co.nz/article/664290/microsoft-pays-us-25m-settle-anti-bribery-charges 
>>
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>> -- 
>> -- 
>> Phil Shapiro, pshapiro at his.com
>> http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html
>> http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro
>> http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html
>>
>> "Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates
>> "Learning happens thru gentleness."
>> "We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose 
>> from real options."  David Suzuki
>>
>
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