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An anonymous submitter writes "James Plamondon, a former Microsoft employee is writing a book on Technological Evangelism at Microsoft. He's posted the first chapter, "Evangelism is War."
Robert Scoble, a current Microsoft Evangelist doesn't like the metaphor, but Micah Alpern is concerned Microsoft could use similar strategies against Macromedia Flash."
What if tonight, the evangelism war could be over? Isn't that work coding for? Isn't...that...worth...debugging for?
Vonal Declosion
Wow where to begin?
Well, for a start, they're not SCO...
Hate...MS....hate...Flash....must tolerate Flash.....must....*smoke drifts from ears*
"You know why you do not see me styling wit my homies? Because I have no homies!!" -Mojo Jojo
Dear SkewlD00d,
/. brainwashing. Report to CowboyNeal for immidiate reprogramming. Soon you will see the light. Linux is the future, Apple is cool, Microsoft is evil and is never a better option.
/. Patrol
It seems as though you have missed basic
The
YOU SUCK BALLS!
There have been Macintosh evangelists for years, so don't worry, Microsoft isn't innovating.
Nothing from nowhere I'm no one at all
So...Microsoft is about to champion for the little guy in the war on spam. Check out this link at CNN.com.
When did MS get into hard core porn?
But did you notice how none of the computers rebooted? That ought to silence people who say Windows isn't fault-tolerant!
Rimshot!
What OS defines me as a person?
Is it me.. or are people generally lazy? I should develop the LazyAssOS that does everything for you... you just watch as it does your work for you, like a matrix screen-saver. I *know* the Automated Homework Generator is on the cusp of reality.
The biggest trick the devil pulled was letting lawyers become politicians so they can write the laws.
1. "This is another part of the evil plan by an evil company to use its evil monopoly for world domination."
2. "This is not new. Apple/BSD/ has done this for years. Another example of M$ just copying others and having no innovation."
3. "This is the end. As soon as customers hear about this, they will en masse migrate away and Bill will be a pauper by next year."
4. "(-1, Troll) Look, this is another example of how the great lord Bill is making things better for all of us!"
Mmmm.. Donuts
for a second i thought we where going to have a non-Microsoft bashing day, thank goodness this story came up, i was beginning to worry about our reputation.
if(story.indexOf("microsoft")!=-1){cursingMsCom
> Even Linux Zealot switched to using macs
:
There's a typo, it should be
"Even Linux Zealot switched to using Emacs"
Votez ecolo : Chiez dans l'urne !
Long live pico!!!
By and large though, Microsoft evangelists tend to be nice people (like Scoble, who used to organize the Fawcette industry conferences for a long time). Much different from sales drones and even most enterprise support reps.
My guess is that the "evangelist" title is reserved for those who are intellectually valuable but aren't malevolent enough to make the real marketing team.
Is it just me?
:/
Yeah, we wanted to see how long you'd take to figure it out yourself. Unfortunately, since he gave it away, you don't get the price.
--Dan
Saturday Night, Redmond Washington. Microsoft Exec: Yes!! Amen! I feel his spirit in me!! You know who I'm talking about. Who'm I talking about?? Microsoft employees: Bill! Exec: Say it again!! MS Drones: BILL!! Exec: Amen, Brothers and Sisters, Amen. Tonight I'm gonna preach from the book of Market Strategies. Chapter 6, Verse 12 Exec: And I saw, and behold a white Aeron chair and he that sat on him had the code; and a laywers was given unto him: and he went forth to conquer. Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, ye Leviathian of blue, shall use my code no longer, for have violated the oath set upon thee, and shall hence forth give unto repentance of 3 billion coins of silver...
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...
i LIKE macs but i cant stand them, im a control freak, if i cannt control EVERY aspect of my computer i slash through /usr/src until i have FULL control
But most of the time i break the linux kernal with huge mistakes.... backup is your firend!