Microsoft Bans Purchase of Apple Products With Company Funds
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Posted March 21, 2012 at 6:05pm by iClarified
Microsoft has reportedly sent an email to 46,000 of its employees worldwide informing them that Apple products can no longer be purchased with company funds, says ZDNet.
Within SMSG we are putting in place a new policy that says that Apple products (Mac & iPad) should not be purchased with company funds.
In the US we will be turning off the Apple products from the Zones Catalog next week, which is the standard purchasing mechanism for these products.
Outside of the US - we will work with your finance and procurement teams to send the right message and put the right processes in place.
The current purchase levels are low, however we recognize there will be a bit of transition work associated with this. Details of historical purchases in the US are provided in the attachment to help understand the changes that will be needed.Thank you for your support and leadership on this.
Okay, so I work for the Macintosh business unit at Microsoft and develop MS Office for MacOS. Can someone tell me how to do that on a PeeCee? This story is a fabrication.
I'm not so sure on some of comments seem like misunderstandng point of the email or am I getting wrong direction... Email clearly stated that they only forbid their ee from using company fund purchase apple product they did not mention any whether ee can't or can using their own money to by apple product... Correct me if I'm wrong
Good for Microsoft. I can only assume that Microsoft company funds are only used to buy things which will be used to conduct business. If, for example, 90% of Microsoft employees were using macs and ipads and iphones then it sends the wrong message to the public. Microsoft needs the world to view their products, or software, as better than the competition. Their employees using Apple products shows the world that this is not the case. Of course apple ios phones and tablets are better than microsoft os's, but microsoft would sign it's death warrant to admit it. If Microsoft were to forbid it's employees from using Apple products on their own time or for their own personal, non-business use, having been purchased with their own earned money then that would be a different thing entirely.
Unless you ARE a lawyer, your comment doesn't hold much weight. You might be surprised what restrictions the DOJ places on purchasing decisions of large companies.
Microsoft or any business has the right to restrict and direct purchases made using Microsoft funds. Now, if a Microsoft employee was buying an Apple product on his/her OWN private expense, then it would be illegal for Microsoft to deny, interfere and so on. Microsoft still lawfully reserves the right to not allow employees with Apple products on their premises if they wish to do so.
This reminds me when Bill Gates was asked about if he would have apple products in his house and he said never and his children weren't aloud to have them either
A lot of companies do that. I wouldn't be surprised if apple banned their employees from having a picture of wife and children on their desk and a mandatory picture of Steve Jobs instead.
A lot of trolls do this. I wouldn't be surprised if all sites banned their visitors from making useless/humorless comments and mandatory witty/usefull commentary was demanded instead.
They should. They should support the devices that run their OS. If win8 on a tablet has open file system, my next tablet will be windows based. As are all my pc's.
Else it is like a GM employee driving a Honda.
As long as it's not a company car, who cares...BTW, how do the VP expect their developers to work on OS X or iOS apps? Last I checked, my Office for Mac was a MS product...