Seen on the back of an African guy in Livingstone, Zambia.

[randomness]

"The most hated and feared group at Microsoft."

So I ran in front of him (okay, given the heat, I walked slightly more quickly and got in front of him) to see which group this was.

"Microsoft Exchange"

Can someone enlighten me as to the in-joke?

(I have a pretty good idea how it came to be on the back of a local guy in Livingstone.)

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[smeehrrr.livejournal.com]

Microsoft does this thing called "eating their own dogfood". This means that they use their products long before they're really meant to be used. Exchange was notoriously shitty, and large portions of the company were required to rely on it for their email, hence "hated". "Feared" was added on to that slogan so that it made a less embarassing t-shirt.