[..] Jean, who is a decent human being in my opinion, was genuinely mad that the PR droids had done the dirty downstream, and I wasn’t actually that irritated. Mind you, it will be a cold day in hell before I give another friendly quote to Microsoft, since clearly their PR lizard-brains can’t be trusted not to fuck with it.
Anyhow, I don’t need to. If I want to say something nice I’ll say it here and Box or Scoble or someone will pick it up and those guys understand that what people said is what they said, not what PR said they said. And Box and Scoble et al are rapidly becoming very important to Microsoft’s image, potentially more so than all that message-managing apparatus. [ongoing]
