A Microsoft Employee Wrote an interesting Corporate Blog Post..

[Tech_Dreamer]

a Microsoft employee published a blog post on the company’s Office blog. Which was quite Hilarious The Blog POst was titled "Google Apps Bring Families together", The post was made by a microsoft employee under the name Tim Carroll as senior product manager on the Office 365 team

 

“the blog post was not properly vetted it has been taken down, and that it was not a reflection of [the company’s] views.”

 

Actual Blog Post removed, Screencaps Cort: Tech_Crunch

 

 

 

 

Soo..Yeaaaaaaaaaaahhh... :mellow:

 

 

Leave a WTF comment down below..

 

Link:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/17/microsoft-employee-pens-the-worstbest-corporate-blog-post-of-all-time/

 

Web cache of Original Blog Post:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:slyoiLMyOdIJ:blogs.office.com/2014/12/16/google-apps-brings-families-together/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

[Trik'Stari]

Bath salts is a hell of a drug.

[LukaP]

i can see why it was removed, this isnt the sort of register you use on a corporate blog

[Sidiox]

Wtf you've got to be kidding me.....

[ShadowCaptain]

what the actual balls

 

this is like the most convoluted office 365 advert I have ever read 

[AlexGoesHigh]

that the kind of shit you either put on facebook or a specific subreddit

[Victorious Secret]

Office 365 > Google Docs because motherfucking Excel will never be replaced by anything, and thats just a fact

[Trik'Stari]

I'm willing to bet he thinks Outlook and Onenote are useful as well.

 

Don't get me wrong, office has it's uses. But I could honestly do without onenote and outlook. I DESPISE both of them. Especially onenote's tendency to replace my moms printer as default printer, because fucking reasons.

[ELSknutson]

Well I'm glad that guy wasn't my father I would of been like F*** you I'm joining the army  and my VW van I am going to pimp out and sell it for 60K use that money to fund a nature show an be a youtube sensation 

that kids father is an ass 0

[Psykomantis00]

I'm willing to bet he thinks Outlook and Onenote are useful as well.

 

If you have never been in a corporate environment I can see how you would think that. 

[Trik'Stari]

If you have never been in a corporate environment I can see how you would think that. 

I've been around one. My dad has to use outlook for his work. I see no advantage what so ever to outlook. Why not just use Gmail?

 

I've had to try and change settings for my dad's outlook, completely and totally horrible experience. I also am forced to use it for my school (ECPI) which is just...mind bogglingly annoying.

[Sauron]

That's a weird advertisement ^^ I wonder why nobody had thought it could be inappropriate... I mean, this CAN'T be a one-man initiative.

 

...or can it? 

[GoodBytes]

I think this was an internal joke, accidentally released

[pk-man]

is this some sort of ad campaign that's trying to go viral?

[StingBull]

This is fanfiction.

[LAwLz]

I agree with him that Office 365 is better than Google Docs but wow... That was terrible.

 

His analogy was a Swiss army knife vs a fork and a spoon?

That makes no sense, unless he means that Google apps are vastly superior to Office in plenty of everyday situations while you'd only really need/want to use Office if your life depended on it.

[mr moose]

Whilst it's clearly either an add or over zealous employee, he is right.  When you go into a professional environment (of any discipline) you quickly learn the difference between low cost and high quality tools.  Doesn't matter if you are a mechanic, butcher, turner, musician, CEO, secretary or what ever,  It's the tool that performs at 100% all the way to the smallest and most finite detail that you want.   Mechanics hate wasting time swapping spanners because the one they picked up started to round, and butchers hate wasting time because their knives go blunt too quickly. 

 

 

 

I agree with him that Office 365 is better than Google Docs but wow... That was terrible.

 

His analogy was a Swiss army knife vs a fork and a spoon?

That makes no sense, unless he means that Google apps are vastly superior to Office in plenty of everyday situations while you'd only really need/want to use Office if your life depended on it.

 

I think he was trying to imply google was a the fork spoon and rubber bands while office was the swiss army knife.  In the context of camping (purpose built device) the swiss army knife is vastly superior.

[dalekphalm]

I personally believe this must have been released as a mistake.

 

If not, then obviously, it's totally inappriopriate to so openly bash a fellow tech company.

 

WITH THAT IN MIND, he's 100% right. The analogy may be flawed, as @LAwLz mentions, but the content is still true.

 

Google Apps is "good enough", but that doesn't actually make it good. Microsoft Office is quite superior. It's just that mom, when typing out a grocery list, won't necessarily need the full functionality. A business professional who actually needs a true productivity suite will take advantage of what Office has to offer.

[Paralectic]

my brain hurts

[Gumi Rokkaku]

Probably one of the dumbest things I've ever read.
I think this comment made up for it though.

This is fanfiction.

[malaki]

dafuq

[TAK]

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[Crazy Ginger]

I'm willing to bet he thinks Outlook and Onenote are useful as well.

Don't get me wrong, office has it's uses. But I could honestly do without onenote and outlook. I DESPISE both of them. Especially onenote's tendency to replace my moms printer as default printer, because fucking reasons.

For me as a high schooler with multiple computers, one note is VERY useful because I can sort my classnotes and they automatically back up to one drive and sync with my other computers. One note is one of those things that is only rather useful to students, so I can understand why you think its useless.

[Trik'Stari]

For me as a high schooler with multiple computers, one note is VERY useful because I can sort my classnotes and they automatically back up to one drive and sync with my other computers. One note is one of those things that is only rather useful to students, so I can understand why you think its useless.

Lol I'm not a note taker. I just remember stuff. And I am a student currently. Although with my more complex classes I will probably need to take notes.

[gligoran]

I've been around one. My dad has to use outlook for his work. I see no advantage what so ever to outlook. Why not just use Gmail?

 

I've had to try and change settings for my dad's outlook, completely and totally horrible experience. I also am forced to use it for my school (ECPI) which is just...mind bogglingly annoying.

 

Being around one and actually in one are very different things. I don't have any use for Outlook at home whatsoever. Gmail is far superior for my personal needs. But when it comes to a corporate environment, Outlooks just blows it out of the water. Scheduling meetings with built-in room-reservations, shared IMAP inboxes that multiple people use (think support@somecompany.com type emails), etc. And I was not a very advanced Outlook user. It's just a completely different use case than Gmail.