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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 496.920.0%Nov 7 9:30 AM EST
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To: ToySoldier who wrote (10509)9/3/1998 3:43:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls  Read Replies (1) of 74651
 
Good alternative Eric, but, your kidding yourself if you dont think that Gates and his inner circle have not hinted or even directed all MSFT staff to do their part to up-hold the company image in whatever means possible and to whatever sources they have access to.

That means the lowly MSFT developer or even Office Worker that has an account on SI finds it to be his/her duty to defend the MSFT honour and put down anti-MSFT posting, comments, etc. they hear.

If Gates hasnt done this then he is not the crafty spin-doctor that I gave him and his company credit for. Sorry, your being naive if you think this message has not gone down through the ranks. Of course you would not ever hear that from a MSFT employee though.

Yes. All companies do this. Every day I get messages from the CEO of Honeywell telling me to defend the company in the Litton suit or the American Airlines suit, etc.

Not. All questions are to be referred to the PR people. Period.

Do you listen to Art Bell's "Dreamland" radio show? Or think that the X-Files is a documentary series? Was Hillary right about the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy?

How many times do you get directives from management to talk up your company every chance you get? Why is it a given that Microsoft operates this way? Convenient that "you would not ever hear that from a MSFT employee" since everyone denying something obviously means that they all must be lying.
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