From: Mike '/m' 

>Remember Mike that the MS Technical staff don't lie although sometimes they
>may be involved with a 'prank' as a result of a brush with alcohol

I like how anything posted here that does not agree with the official
Microsft line is labeled as "lies".  I see Rich Shupak has
started in with the "lies" assertions over the proper use of the
word "service"; as if Microsoft owns the only proper usage of
that word, and the rest of the English-speaking world is wrong.

It's really funny to see Rich Shupak reduced to being a traffic cop of word
usage according to Microsoft.

 /m




On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 23:26:29 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>
>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>news:prcov0t20ouj7c8hqtt5c76fo2i9jf4tv8{at}4ax.com...
>>
>> As if microsoft.com is the source of truth.  That is so hilarious.  It is
>> so
>> sad that microsoft.com is all you have to point to to substantiate your
>> assertions. Pages come and go on that site as often as the wind changes
>> direction in New England.  Here today, gone tomorrow.  But I guess when
>> you
>> have to toe the Microsoft line, you have to do what you have to do.
>>
>>
>>
>
>Remember Mike that the MS Technical staff don't lie although sometimes they
>may be involved with a 'prank' as a result of a brush with alcohol
>
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/20/ms_blog_alcohol_culprit/
>
>Alcohol was to blame for senior Microsoft developers setting a blog-born
>trap for a journalist, according to the company's most-prominent weblog
>evangelist, Robert Scoble.
>
>
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/19/microsoft_blog_hoax_backfire/
>A hoax perpetrated by senior Microsoft technical staff has backfired, after
>Microsoft Watch's Mary Jo Foley rumbled the prank.
>
>Staff led by middleware guru Don Box "invented" a new business process
>language called BML that was part of a project called Boa.
>
>Microsoft has unleashed over 1,400 bloggers, hoping that their emergent hive
>mind will speed the next version of Windows, Longhorn, to release. Sun
>Microsystems lags slightly behind in this arms race, with far fewer staff on
>hand to generate the Real Time Noise that's an essential part of bringing
>software to market in a timely fashion [are you sure about this? - ed]. The
>tittering Microsoft bloggers spread the word about Boa, BML and "Indigo
>Marks".
>

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