Monday, October 15, 2018

Now Who Said This?

For those whose lives were nearly shattered by upgrading to W10 1809 and losing all their data, for those who have their W10 machine frozen somewhere between W10 upgrades, for the eons wasted trying to figure out how to fix a Microsoft problem comes an interview at Harvard, of course where else, which notes:

Whether we like it or not, the public is increasingly turning not to their elected officials, but to the heads of major corporations for leadership on important and difficult issues. Perhaps because of partisan gridlock, perhaps because politicians seem to pay more attention when Big Business talks, rightly or wrongly, people expect today’s CEOs to pick up the ball. That’s both good and bad for society, according to Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer. “I think it’s not only good, but fundamentally important that companies have a conscience,” he said during a talk with Harvard Business Review ...People, especially younger workers, want to work for businesses that operate conscientiously, and as companies expand globally, particularly those in creative and intellectual property sectors, it becomes not just a nice thing to do, but an imperative for corporate survival. “You better have a conscience,” Smith said.

One could reasonably ask in my opinion what planet this tin eared executive has just arrived from. Is there any conscience for what damage in my opinion has been done to the masses of computer users with this W10 disaster. Worse yet, what is to come from this behemoth as it rolls our newer and more useless in my opinion software. People in glass houses.......