Microsoft's Strategy Memos

jg21 writes "So Linux made it onto Steve Ballmer's radar screen at last? No mention last year, in his annual strategy memo, but this year there's sentence after sentence - summarized at LinuxWorld this morning - which means, I guess, that 50,000-plus more folks around the world now will be aware of open source...he sent it to everyone in the company! Interestingly, in his public-facing CEO memo, distributed the same day as the internal one, Ballmer in contrast mentions Linux just once. What is it that conjurers call this, ah yes - distraction strategy?"

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Re:Bugfixes?

[gunnk]

If it takes several hours of brow-beating to elicit a confession, maybe your users are simply confessing to make the torture stop.

Seriously, if this is how you support your clients you're causing more problems than you're fixing, and your clients are probably just living with a large number of problems you never see simply because they dread the thought of calling you. At this point you likely have NO CLUE what the real situation is among your workforce.

I can't say I blame you for posting as AC. That's shameful.