A Press Junket To Redmond

christian.einfeldt writes "Our very own Roblimo Miller was invited to an all-expenses-paid tour of the Microsoft campus because he is supposedly 'not friendly' to Microsoft. Writes Roblimo: 'I came away with a sense that Microsoft doesn't currently have a clear sense of what Microsoft should be and where Microsoft should be going... I also think, from what I heard during my visit and what other Microsoft employees and customers have told me at other times, that it has degenerated into a series of disconnected fiefdoms that aren't all moving in the same direction.'" Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.

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Very clever, yes.

[dedazo]

The more you bullshit them with snide post-mortem "let me tell you how it is" articles (to which they will never reply because they can't) designed to convey the idea that you have lots of "cred" with the "community", the less they will reach out to you. Change in Microsoft has to come from the bottom, not the top. The more you insult lower-level employees who won't get on their knees and celebrate you as some sort of god and talk frankly about what Ballmer said last week because they're not supposed to (or simply don't want to), the less they'll talk to you at all. Jesus christ, that's like berating a clerk at the DMV for a speech made by the governor. WTF? If you wanted to get clarification about something Ballmer said you should requested to talk to him, and skipped this "junket" thing entirely.

The more I see how the members of this "community" behave the less faith I have that the person who ends up running Microsoft in the next 10 years will bother being civil to them. Grow the fuck up.