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"As it is platform agnostic, Microsoft can…" Sorry…what??? When did that happen?

By Malcolm ⋅ December 22, 2009 ⋅ Email This Post Email This Post ⋅ Print This Post Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

"As it is platform agnostic, Microsoft can…" Sorry…what??? When did that happen?  I’m guessing this is one of those subject/object quirks of the English language, otherwise I’ve just blacked out and missed an eventful few years. 

 

Update: It seems I need to be more clear. I’m not critical of MS for having a platform bias. As a platform company, that sounds like a perfectly reasonable position to take. I’m just staggered that a journo could seriously suggest they’re not. 

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5 comments for “"As it is platform agnostic, Microsoft can…" Sorry…what??? When did that happen?”

  1. Uh… you do know you said that out loud, right?

    Posted by Allen Bauer | December 22, 2009, 10:24 am

  2. Sure. What am I missing?

    Posted by Malcolm | December 22, 2009, 11:34 am

  3. I guess Alex Williams knows something we don’t (or ingests something we don’t).
    It is hard to say what the author meant by platform agnostic. Is the iPhone platform agnostic? Or is it Exchange? Or is it Microsoft? Or what?
    All I can say is that we (developers) should all be platform agnostic.

    Posted by Fletch | December 23, 2009, 1:04 am

  4. Hi Malcolm

    The “it” refers to the subject of the previous sentence: the iPhone.
    You gotta love the English language :)

    Posted by David Moorhouse | December 23, 2009, 5:44 am

  5. Hi David, yes, that’s what I suspected. However in his comments he suggests he meant that MS was platform agnostic when it comes to mobile OS, which is much less of a stretch. Cheers, Malcolm

    Posted by Malcolm | December 23, 2009, 8:12 am

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