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.)

Comments

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imagine that someone, somewhere in your company, has a review goal of "get a given percentage of the company using this mail product for testing purposes, and start with the IT group because they have the charter to be our FIRST AND BEST CUSTOMER".

imagine the product is completely and totally unready for prime time, and that doing this would stress it far beyond what it is capable of dealing with at the moment. imagine that people will be without their mail for days - up to a week at a time - if you do this. and you do it anyways.

what's impressive, really, was watching the ways people came up with to work around not having functional email in a very email-driven corporate environment.