No April Fool's jokes this year :(
Yesterday, all bloggers here at Microsoft received a memo
from Steve Ballmer asking us not to do any April Fool's
jokes on our blogs. Here's a citation from this memo:
"This kind of joke can affect the image of the company
negatively and spread false information. We'll have to be
very strict on enforcing this policy and any employee who
chooses not to obey this simple rule will have to face
sanctions up to and including termination of their
employment."
That's really sad, I had a few good ones that I had been
preparing. Oh well.
Update: of course, this was written on April 1st, so none of
this is true. SteveB never wrote such a memo.