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Comment by chimeracoder | Hacker News Reader

Honestly, quite possibly the same PR team drafted both letters.

>quite possibly the same PR team drafted both letters.

How cynical are you people that you don't think long-time corporate executives can sit down and write a professional, "safe" sounding, 500 word resignation letter?

Why do you think that we think that's what happened because the two executives "can't"?

I think it happened because both had lawyers looking it over due to the fact both are operating in the heavily regulated space of high-level officers in one of the world's largest publicly traded companies, and it would be suicidally stupid to not have lawyers looking over your every official utterance... and while the words are in the lawyers hands, the PR department might as well have a go too, since it's not a hard guess to think this could go mobile-first, cloud-first... er... public.

It's not whether or not he can, it's whether or not he did.

I think they can. I also think it's not a good use of their time.

Why do that when they can pay someone else to?

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Poorly written? 'then him'? 'bolness'? Funny.

This comment thread should be in the HN hall of fame. Classic :)

Reading this, "No company in the world has the mix of software skills, cloud skills, and hardware skills we have assembled", only got me thinking of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gosFtO6504

Possibly, written by the same person.

This is such a ridiculous scenario that I hope it's how it actually happened.

Somebody at MS PR is having a good laugh with friends over beers now.

> Honestly, ...

I see what you did there!

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