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Re:Microsoft Coffee by nxc18 on Friday April 02, 2021 @02:01PM (#26673993)
I think people sometimes don’t perceive things the same way and that can lead to misunderstandings. I have sympathy, I’ve been in the position of having some edgy marketing/pr go the wrong way for a software launch.

Totally random example that I had _no involvement_ in: launching a tree survey app on the 20th of April that had insufficient moderation tools. I’ll let your imagination around this (totally hypothetical) scenario run wild.

Personally, I think the prank would have been fine if they filled the boxes with actual coffee beans.

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Re:Microsoft Coffee by robbomacrae on Friday April 02, 2021 @03:47PM (#26675220)
"Personally, I think the prank would have been fine if they filled the boxes with actual coffee beans." Thats exactly what I was expecting from the title and the mentions of it being "costly". I would have found it quite funny to be picking up a box of coffee from Microsoft and it would work on a number of levels. If it was just an empty box with absolutely no product, coffee or software or otherwise, then thats just kinda lame... I agree with Bill on this one.
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Re:Microsoft Coffee by jhugo on Friday April 02, 2021 @11:13PM (#26678161)
From a comment from pricci currently near the top of the page, who got a box:

> One morning we were going to brew it but it was whole grain and we didn't have a grinder.

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