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Someone from Microsoft did apologize - https://twitter.com/#!/BenThePCGuy/status/184123838949359616

Wow. Just wow. Just when you think they couldn't possibly bungle this any further.

tl;dr: MS rep apologizes and invites him back for a rematch. Because it's like he hasn't already won the challenge or something.

did you just provide a TLDR for a tweet?!

And I voted him for that. I don't have to click, switch tab and read the tweet. :-)

I appreciate it, given how long a web page showing a single tweet takes to load.

Following a twitter link involves copying the url, pasting it to the address bar, backspacing the "#!/" and adding "m." before twitter.com, because twitter's dumb hashbang scheme can't deal with noscript. Reading the tl;dr is much faster!

The link works for me in mac safari.

I use noscript and I get this horrible url, but it shows the correct tweet (i'm not logged in). Yet it's much better reading the posted tldr.

  https://twitter.com/BenThePCGuy/statuses/184123838949359616?_escaped_fragment_=/BenThePCGuy/status/184123838949359616#!/BenThePCGuy/status/184123838949359616

In this case, TL should stand for 'twitter link.' They can be a pain. : )

Well, in my case I have Twitter (and Facebook) banned at work.

Fortunately I'm the only one wasting my time on Hacker News, otherwise it'd be blocked as well.

Edit: the recommendation "flee any company that filters your Internet" also applies to my case.

You mean to say "in other 140 characters" instead of the "tl;dr" :)

Maybe the L here is for the twitter page loading time. ;)

"I see I cheated you out of a laptop. Come back and we'll cheat you again, but this time more fairly!"

Some generic company apologist, unrelated to the events in question, (kind of) apologized. Until the manager in question who is actually responsible apologies, I don't see why that should count for anything. This is becoming a depressingly common pattern, big company screws up then someone completely unrelated offers a generic apology while the people actually responsible never say anything. If the apology isn't from the someone involved in the screw-up then it doesn't count.

And while we're busy apologizing, perhaps the person responsible for this stupid PR event should apologies to Microsoft for further damaging an already tarnished brand.

Ben Rudolph isn't "[s]ome generic company apologist, unrelated to the events in question" - he's one of the guys behind the Smoked By Windows Phone promotion.[1]

[1] http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/arch...

It technically classifies as an apology I guess.

He followed up with a clarification that he wasn't there and will "make it right". https://twitter.com/#!/BenThePCGuy/status/184161094774964224

"Relax guys!"

Nothing makes me calm down more than someone telling me to relax. And the exclamation point at the end is especially soothing.

That is not an apology.

Rematch? How about you pony up the hardware you owe the person? Lame with a side of lame.

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