Re: Is it true?
From: James Martin (martin)
Date: 01/21/04
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 22:39:39 -0500
No problem, I was just giving you a hard time because your reply struck me
as funny. (In a corporate kinda way) :)
"Paul [MSFT]" <pauly@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi James,
>
> Regarding your post:
>
> --------------------
> | From: "James Martin" <martin 426 At yahoo>
> | Subject: Re: Is it true?
> | Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:09:08 -0500
> |
> | No offense Paul, but that was a doublespeak event of Orwellian
> proportions.
> | Post a reply to say you can't reply.
> |
> | To Answer PEGcapital's question, Microsoft will include many new
features
> in
> | their products, and you *will* like them. Rest assured. However, you
> | should be very nervous about the trusted computing initiatives that many
> | companies are itching for.
>
> At the risk of the even more "double-speak" let me clarify my reason for
> posting the reply .
>
> People often ask for specifics on features in the next release. The
> original poster wanted very specific details including a confirmation on
if
> the feature would be included in the Word interface.
>
> As a rule Microsoft will not confim. However, if Microsoft were to ignore
> every such question with not even an acknoledgement that we saw the post,
> it would be even more frustrating to the poster.
>
> While Microsoft maintains a long-standing policy of not commenting on
> features in unreleased products, we have remind people of this fact
> occasionally to let them know that we are listening to them, not ignoring
> them, and also to remind others who read posts in a public forum that if
> such questions are asked (future features) they will not recieve
> confirmation from Microsoft in that forum. Hopefully this achieves two
> things:
>
> 1. Lets people know that we are in the communities and do care about what
> people are discussing and
> 2. Occasionally reminding people that they should not expect to get
> confirmation on questions that have been and continue to be out-of-bounds.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Paul Hayes
>
>
>
>
>
>
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