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Microsoft leads the way in banning April Fools' Day pranks
Everyone hates April Fools' Day, and Microsoft is taking a stand against its own corporate pranks. Microsoft's marketing chief Chris Capossela has warned all employees to not participate in the process of annoying hoaxes on Monday. In an internal memo, obtained and verified by The Verge, Capossela explains that "data tells us these stunts have limited positive impact and can actually result in unwanted news cycles." He encourages all teams inside Microsoft not to do any public-facing April Fools' Day stunts.
"I appreciate that people may have devoted time and resources to these activities, but I believe we have more to lose than gain by attempting to be funny on this one day," says Capossela. That's probably a safe bet, as we've seen some April Fools' Day pranks backfire spectacularly in the past. Google was forced to apologize for adding Despicable Me minions into emails and muting threads a few years ago, causing email havoc for Gmail users. Microsoft has also participated in many April Fools' Day pranks over the years, including an MS-DOS mobile for Windows Phone and Google insults.
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Also at BGR.
See also: Everyone Should Follow Microsoft's Lead in Banning April Fools' Day Pranks
(Score: 2) by SpockLogic on Monday April 01 2019, @12:49AM (8 children)
Should have posted this tomorrow, Monday, but somewhere it is tomorrow already so ..... nevermind.
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday April 01 2019, @01:03AM (4 children)
It's April Fool's right now where I am, and fortunately I have not had to endure any "jokes" today.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday April 01 2019, @02:22AM (3 children)
Just go to http://stackexchange.com [stackexchange.com] for a geocities like style (actually my advice is "avoid if you can")
If you can't avoid it, find the "Time travel" very discrete button on the banner bar and press it once (it's toggle behavior) before you succumb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Monday April 01 2019, @07:34AM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday April 01 2019, @07:39AM
Some of us can't afford NoScript in office environs. As a strange coincidence, that when one is most likely to land on stackexchange.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Monday April 01 2019, @09:53AM
Though the CSS-based ugliness is still apparent without scripts.
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Monday April 01 2019, @02:05AM (2 children)
It's always 5:00 somewhere.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday April 01 2019, @06:04AM (1 child)
That's not true. Time zones generally go in full hour steps; there are also some half-hour steps, but that's already rather unusual. There may be even more odd cases, but they are certainly not frequent enough that all 1440 minutes of the day are covered.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Informative) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday April 01 2019, @11:05AM
Unless one disregards the time zone proper and one fractionates the time as a percentage of the day/night cycle such that you are 5/12ths of the cycle of sun zenith to nadir at any given location. In fact since one may also fractionate nadir to zenith it is actually 5:00 in at least two locations at once for AM and PM!
Then again, Khallow has convinced me that if we take the singular instant of 4:5999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 PM repeating that this actually is also 5:00 PM. Thus we have two moments in time which are conjunctive and all time and space immediately stops infinitely and thus it is always 4:59 everywhere. [wikipedia.org]
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