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

[Curtis Franklin]

Just to add to the complexity of the situation…

The fine is for activity that started before Nadella became CEO, last through some of his first year. 

I think Microsoft has changed in some fundamental ways, but not in ALL fundamental ways. This is also about activities in parts of the world where customery and usual business practices are different than they are in, say, the US and UK. I work for a US-based piece of a UK company that has operations all over the world, and we have to go through an annoying amount of training and lecturing about those business practices.

In my experience, Microsoft was, and remains, a big international company, with all the good, bad, and maddening those labels imply.

Curt

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> On Jul 23, 2019, at 11:45, VM Brasseur via Ipg-smz <ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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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