What If There Was a Microsoft Appreciation Day? 362
theodp writes "In 2005, Microsoft came under fire after withdrawing support for an anti-gay-discrimination bill. 'I don't want the company to be in the position of appearing to dismiss the deeply-held beliefs of any employee, by picking sides on social policy issues,' explained CEO Steve Ballmer. That was then. Microsoft — like Google and Amazon — has since very publicly declared its support for gay-marriage legislation, which means it — unlike Chick-fil-A — needn't worry about the 'deeply-held beliefs of any employee' causing it to be blocked from doing business by the mayors of Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. I guess we'll never know what Microsoft versions of 'Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day' or 'National Same-Sex Kiss Day' would have looked like."
Questions, Always These Questions.... (Score:5, Funny)
What If There Was an End to All These Silly Interrogatory Posts at Slashdot?
Re:What's the point of this "story"? (Score:5, Funny)
If there were a Microsoft Appreciation Day, there would be a story on Slashdot about it. It'd get over 1K comments, about a third of which would be iOS vs Android and libertarian vs liberal flamewars, a separate 100-comment thread on the evil on H-1B, another one about why Unity sucks, and the rest would be uniformly panning the UI Formely Known As Metro (occasionally diverging into the 5-minute hate of ribbon). All of that would, of course, generate a quite astronomical amount of ad views.
Given that there isn't a Microsoft Appreciation Day, Slashdot has to content itself with imagining that there is one, and going from there. It's not as good as the real thing, but for some reason people mostly ignore the Bitcoin stories outright these days, and even the regular AGW flamewars barely scrape a measly 400 comments, so you have to do with what you have...
In other news, what if Richard Stallman said "I laid off the 'shrooms and bought an iPad - fuck GPL, it was all just a bad trip all along" - stay tuned!
Re:What's the point of this "story"? (Score:2, Funny)
If you're going to have a Microsoft Appreciation day, it should be August 28.
That way you'd get to celebrate the anniversary of Stockholm Syndrome with a bullying, abusive, extortionist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome [wikipedia.org]