Platform Evangelism

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."

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Evangelism is war

[CptChipJew]

What if tonight, the evangelism war could be over? Isn't that work coding for? Isn't...that...worth...debugging for?

Microsoft!

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow where to begin?

Well, for a start, they're not SCO...

As much as I hate to say it...

[DwarfGoanna]

I don't think Flash is going anywhere.

Hate...MS....hate...Flash....must tolerate Flash.....must....*smoke drifts from ears*

Guy Kawasaki

[birdman666]

There have been Macintosh evangelists for years, so don't worry, Microsoft isn't innovating.

MS is Hardcore

[Agent Deepshit]

"As a direct result, Microsoft built its annual profits from an impressive XXX to an astounding XXX"

When did MS get into hard core porn?

Re:The coolest thing on that site

[chrisleonard]

> The coolest thing on that site ... is the Windows Media file of the seattle earthquake.

But did you notice how none of the computers rebooted? That ought to silence people who say Windows isn't fault-tolerant!

Rimshot!

:op

Fight Club

[MyHair]

What OS defines me as a person?

Standard responses to an article about M$

[donutello]

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!"

phew

[Anonymous Coward]

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){cursingMsComm en ts++}

Re:Linux Zealot goes to the Mac store

[jalet]

> Even Linux Zealot switched to using macs

There's a typo, it should be :

"Even Linux Zealot switched to using Emacs"

Re:Evangelism

[The Bungi]

Do you use vi or emacs?

Long live pico!!!

Re:Evangelism

[cookiej]

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.

Re:Good Heavens

[Sentry21]

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

I feel the spirit...

[sTalking_Goat]

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...