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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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(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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