If those reports are true, it's definitely a **** move. I would not put it past individual employees following orders, though. You'd think Microsoft employees across the globe would have gotten the memo about all the bad press as of late. Maybe not, though. Maybe these guys didn't get the memo. Could you imagine the meeting they might be having today?
"Hey guys, what's happening? Uhhh.... We have sort of a problem here. Yeah. You guys were acting like dicks only days after all of our bad press."
"We're sorry about that. We, uh... we forgot."
"Yeah.... You see, we're putting the kibosh on all bad PR decisions now before they go viral. Did you see the memo about this?"
"Yeah. We have the memo right here. We just forgot."
"Yeeeaaahhh. If you could just go ahead and do that from now on, that would be great. Mmmkay?"
Probably not. They probably got raises.
EDIT: So **** is censored but not dicks. Strange. What about dickless?
EDIT2: Nope.
EDIT3: The comments on that first article are pretty funny.
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