On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 18:40 +0100, Keith Gearty wrote: > Dale Worley wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 13:58 +0100, Keith Gearty wrote: > > > > > The comments at the bottom of the article (by a Microsoft guy who was > > > working on Response Point) seem to deny the claims in the article. > > > > > > > All I see are notices that people are leaving the project and that the > > current version will continue to be supported. Which translates, in the > > common tongue, to "product killed". > > > Hmmm. Maybe I need a read a newbie tutorial on interpreting Microsoft > marketing crap.
The general rule to reading corpspeak is to ask "What is not being said that a normal person would say in these circumstances?" I.e., if a normal person would say "We are continuing with development of the product and the next release is scheduled as before." (e.g., to reassure potential customers), and the corporate drone does *not* say that, it (generally) means that they are *not* continuing with development and they are *not* planning on a next release. Of course, sometimes companies lie outright. And even more treacherously, they will use this method to hint that something has been done when it has not been. But generally once the product is on the market, the company has no incentive to talk it down, no matter how much that might be used to deceive the competition. Dale _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
