Microsoft staff giggle beneath the weight of a 52,000-person Reply-All email storm:
Team Redmond stokes the flames as an exercise in black humor
[...] Microsoft is right now groaning under the weight of a 52,000-person internal Reply-All email storm.
The Register understands this one started with a new offer from Microsoft's internal store about discount software deals. While that offer was generous, it didn't apply to all Microsoft staff everywhere, which prompted an early Reply-All message asking why not. And then the snowball started rolling, and nothing could stop it.
We understand the mail went throughout Microsoft – enterprise, cloud and even Xbox folks found it in their inboxes.
Our Microsoft sources tell us staff are now hitting Reply All for the sheer fun of it, posting frivolous messages that celebrate the ridiculousness of the situation.
Laughter is the best medicine?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Friday March 27 2020, @09:30PM (1 child)
True poetic justice would be if it could spread malware to every single Microsoft internal recipient, without them even needing to read the email.
That would truly serve Microsoft right.
After all, as martyb asks: Laughter is the best medicine?
Yes, it is.
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 28 2020, @12:32AM
Haha, you wish.
The entire 52000 Microsoft workplace run a Linux desktop and are thus immune to Windows virii. Which is why there are so many security holes in Win10 because they dont dogfood. It's no secret they're developing WSL only so when forced to work at a customer's they can whip out a Bash shell to get real work done.
But just to be doubly safe, it's no coincidence they're rolling out Defender for Linux.