Hillary Clinton Top Strategist Becomes Microsoft Strategist

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There’s something all too appropriate about a strategist for a bland and uninteresting presidential candidate whose only virtue is that she is the 800 lb gorilla in the room because of her name recognition…

…going to work for a bland and uninteresting company whose only virtue is being the 800 lb gorilla in the room because of its name recognition.

Hillary Clinton could be said to be the Microsoft of presidential candidates, boring, poorly designed, prone to crashes and desperately pretending to be cooler than she is.

Microsoft is losing its monopolistic grip on the computer marketplace and Hillary Clinton is losing her grip on the candidacy.

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has made his first move to leave a mark on the tech giant by brining changes to the senior leadership team.

In the total shakeup, Nadella moved Mark Penn, former strategist for Hillary Clinton, from his advertising duties to focus exclusively on strategy.

According to the Washington Post, Penn was serving as Microsoft’s executive vice president of advertising and strategy before the shake up.

For Washingtonians, Penn’s appointment is of particular interest, following his time on the Clinton presidential campaign and his subsequent resignation after his public relations work raised conflict-of-interest issues, the report said.

According to the report, during his year and half at Microsoft, Penn helped the firm use his penchant for negative advertising against tech competitors.

What a shock. And how well has that worked out for Microsoft? Users still like Windows 8 almost as much as they like Hillary.

  • A Z

    We’re transitioning to a version of Unix with Open Office or one of those.

    Finding out where everything is after each update of Office or Windows is too much. Then there is the price tag.

    • Daniel Greenfield

      Windows 8 feels too controlling and nanny statish. Metro is like Socialism, it tries to tell you what’s good for you and then tries to force you to accept it when you don’t want it.

      • objectivefactsmatter

        LOL

        For some of the same reasons…except that at least you can choose other options.

        I guess Linux is the preferred OS for liberty loving conservatives.

      • Sharps Rifle

        I had that issue with Win7. Win8.1 works fine for me (in desktop mode…I refuse to use the side of the OS which emulates a smart phone)…but IE 11.5 is a loser.
        My guess is that Penn will end up making Microsoft even lousier than it is. The shame is that Apple is no better.

  • http://forbiddenterritories.com/profile/Isahiah62 Isahiah62

    well well more in common- Bill and Melinda Gates support Common Crap err Core – the plan will use Big Brother like spying on our children, eyeball watching technology- wouldn’t want the kids to miss the indoctrination err I mean education- and b/c manipulatio0n of the kids is just not enough- the info will be FED TO GOOGLE

  • bob e

    then there is the small item of you not owning the software you just bought..
    did they ever find the body of the guy who wrote DOS ??

    • Daniel Greenfield

      All comes down to Xerox anyway

      • objectivefactsmatter

        The GUI layered on to DOS (and MacOS) came from Xerox, or the concept we should say.

        DOS itself had other origins in Unix concepts and maybe other sources. DOS was used to deal with local disks rather than what Unix calls a Unified File System. URLs for the Internet come from the UFS concept.

        DOS was supposed to effectively run all local resources as opposed to networks of computers with “dumb terminals” in some cases as one big (theoretically) unified file system.

  • ObamaYoMoma

    Time to sell all your Microsoft stock.