Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 19th Nov 2001 19:44 UTC
Today, OSNews features an interview with Zac Woodall, software design Engineer at Office Data and Developer Services at Microsoft Corporation. Zac, who is also a frequent OSNews reader, talks about the new Office, .NET, WindowsXP, NTFS and how it compares to BFS filesystem, the GPL & open source movement and much more.
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It was fairly obvious that Microsoft PR injected a fair amount of Microsoft Newspeak into this interview, and censored any discussion of future products or other confidential information. It would have been nice to get the straight dope, but I'll tell you one thing for sure: Microsoft did not get where it is by allowing its engineers to talk to the press un-chaperoned.
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Developers love to talk about what they're working on, and they tend to get really excited when talking to reporters and would definitely spill the beans about all kinds of secret stuff. Not only that, but people who are not trained to "stay on message" can be goaded by an experienced interviewer into saying a lot of really stupid stuff.
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So, though I deplore the cheesy and heavyhanded approach that most PR people take, I understand that they're vitally important, especially for a company like Microsoft, that has a lot to hide, and has a lot of people that would love to trip it up.