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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!gregde
- From: gregde@microsoft.com (Greg Demichillie)
- Subject: Re: Has Microsoft abandoned us?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.002152.10702@microsoft.com>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 00:21:52 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Aug20.140202.18388@src.honeywell.com>
- Lines: 37
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- In article <1992Aug20.140202.18388@src.honeywell.com> dicks@cfsmo.honeywell.com writes:
- >Couldn't help but notice the silence of Microsoft people recently.
- >Alistair (who was posting daily) hasn't been seen since August 11
- >and the latest post by anyone there was August 14.
- >
- >Possible reasons:
- > - Alistair is on vacation?
- > - Alistair got bored answering the same questions repeatedly?
- > - Alistair is heavily involved in the weeklong sales meeting?
- > - After some of the Microsoft guys got into arguments with
- > customers here, they were all told to get lost?
- > - Microsoft has adopted an absolute 'no usenet support' policy?
-
- A couple of comments:
-
- As far as I know, there isn't anybody at MS whose job description
- includes regularly reading Internet and responding. You may argue
- that there should be (and I imagine such debates are going on) but
- as it stands now, EVERYONE who post on internet does so on their
- own time. So, when things get into crunch mode, the first thing
- that goes is keeping up on the net.
-
- Secondly, (and I hope this doesn't sound like a lame excuse because
- it's true) we tend to suffer occasional delays in our internet feed.
- Usually it is along the lines of incoming articles being recieved
- 10 or more days after they are posted. It doesn't happen often, but
- when it does it's a major pain. And then when the things return to
- normal it does so with a *flood* of messages.
-
-
- I hope I haven't discouraged you from posting, and I wish I had time
- to keep up with all the groups I think are interesting.
-
- -Greg
-
- --
- Greg DeMichillie
- gregde@microsoft.com -- All opinions are mine, not Microsoft's --
-