kowenicki said:
/jk yeah great.... original.... now if I had tried that elsewhere... BANHAMMER |
Well you did leave the door wide open for it.
The fact that it's necessary to put /jk or a smiley face on a post like that in order to avoid a ban just shows how hyper-sensitive people are around here, people take things far too seriously, and they almost always attribute the ugliest of motives to what anyone writes. A lot of the time people do have ugly motives, but that just means people need to develop a bit of discernment.
In all good jokes, and some bad ones, there is a grain of truth. There are certainly people in MS, and some shareholders who do think Xbox is part of the rubbish that needs to be cut, which is exactly why some people would be very sensitive about a comment that implies Nadella should ditch Xbox. It's highly likely that there are senoir people at MS whispering such things in his ear. Maybe not even whispering. However it's pretty obvious that the situations with Nook and Xbox are very different, not least of which is that Nook is getting cosy with the phone/tablet competition, so MS might have been thinking they either need to go all in (buy the whole thing) or get out. A halfway house situation was not tennable. And getting out was the better decision.
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