Microsoft accuses media of biased and 'puzzling' Steve Ballmer coverage

As members of the press and public weigh in on Steve Ballmer's impending departure from Microsoft, the company is today delivering an emphatic message: the best is still to come. But Redmond isn't happy about the tone of media coverage in recent days. VP of communications Frank Shaw has taken to the official Microsoft blog to call out "variability" and "radically divergent conclusions" he's seen following Ballmer's surprise announcement. "The key thing that determines how we interpret a set of facts is the frame we view them through and what pre-existing beliefs that frame is built on," Shaw writes.

"The reason we have big ambitions is because we see big potential."

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