Mar 28, 2019 09:57:00

Microsoft bans April Fools

When April 1st comes to

April Fool 's Day, various companies around the world will lie and entertain users with the help of Microsoft, but Microsoft has put an April Fool's ban in-house as if it's disliked by this custom It is clear.

Microsoft leads the way in banning April Fools' Day pranks-The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/27/18283674/microsoft-april-fools-day-ban-pranks-internal-memo

Microsoft marketing chief Chris Capossera warned employees not to join April Fool's Day on March 25, 2019. According to an internal memo originally acquired by The Verge of foreign media, Mr. Caposela bans April Fool's Day, saying that 'the positive impact of April Fool's Day is limited and an undesirable news cycle may occur.' Explain to employees the reasons.

In addition, “I understand that people have spent a lot of time and resources for April Fool's Day, but there is something to lose, more than anything gained by trying something interesting on this day “I think there are more people,” says Caposela, who says the benefits of joining April Fool are less.

It is commonplace that a lie with an april fool is backfired, and The Verge indicates that Microsoft's april fool ban has a certain understanding as a 'possibly safe'. The reason is that Google has been forced to apologize from April Fools in the past.

In addition, in the past, Microsoft has been carrying out as 'April Fool 's Neta ' 'The neta which makes the Windows Phone look like MS-DOS ' and ' the neta which changes the search engine Bing of Microsoft to the Google-like look '.

April Fool's Day is a tradition that has been around for 500 years, but in recent years it can not be denied that it is no longer a corporate appeal battle. Microsoft apparently has dropped out on April Fool's participation from a technical point of view, and is trying to change the trend of having to join 'April Fool's Day', but this movement reaches many other high-tech companies I do not know whether it will be April 1st, 2019.

GIGAZINE is taking advantage of April Fool's Day to take charge of various sites from 0 o'clock to 24 o'clock on April 1st, literally 24 hours on a net for 24 hours, so it will be bundled in real time and will be collected in real time.