> The point is to provide an exclusive and desirable brand name
Brand names are fundamentally based on merit, not by implementing some initiative that any school can do in a year. Harvard is Harvard and not some no-name college because of adherence of its incredibly selective hiring process over the years
Title is clearly click bait. This seems more like a message to gradually help people moving off a product that will eventually get retired. If MS is advertising you would think they would advertise in higher traffic apps (i.e. Paint) but most people don't even use WordPad.
It's a consequence of high-pay / prestige and dog-eats-dog culture that attracts all sorts of psychopaths. It's really sad because smaller companies will no-doubt copy from them
The fact that he's fired further proves that what he said is true.
Brand names are fundamentally based on merit, not by implementing some initiative that any school can do in a year. Harvard is Harvard and not some no-name college because of adherence of its incredibly selective hiring process over the years