Your logic on this is completely wrong iamcpc. It doesn't matter if one or two thousand people were put on the Bing project, people check each others work.
Your statement is rediculous.
This statement is ridiculous. Not only is it misspelled but it provides no productive input whatsoever and it's borderline insulting.
And not only that, even if it was edited tomorrow to say something crazy like the earth is actually flat, people can see the edit history and see what idiot put false information on their website.
Please show me where I can go to see the edit history.
Stuff like this doesn't go unchecked and employees are held accountable for their actions. Microsoft would much rather check their work than lose face over easy to find misinformation on their own website.
There are two retorts to this:
1. People still make mistakes. Books and newspapers go through editing many times and still are published with mistakes, errors, incorrect information or typos. Just because something was checked does not mean that it is correct or accurate.
2. I worked for a decently large company with like 30,000 people. The CEO wanted documentation put onto a website which was incorrect. That order went like this:
-The CEO told a SR Vice President.
-The SR Vice President told my boss, the Vice President
-The Vice President told me to put incorrect documentation on the website
Here's how the conversation went:
Boss: "The CEO wants you to put incorrect documentation on a website:
Me: "Even though that documentation is incorrect/inaccurate?"
Boss: "Yep"
Me: "no problem! I'll get it done today"
It's abundantly clear that you never worked in web design or development because you would have had to do something which you knew was incorrect or inaccurate because your boss told you to. Out of thousands and thousands and thousands of people who worked for the company only a few people were aware of this.
Hell I've worked for a Microsoft company and under no circumstance was I ever going to put an easteregg in my work because I'd likely lose my job and possibly get fined/sued depending on what it is.
You sure as hell would have put an Easter egg if the CEO told you to.
I'm curious as to the places you've worked iamcpc, to go thinking anyone can do anything and have the world see it but not your boss.
This is not an isolated incident. It happens MANY MANY TIMES. Even for the company I work for now build this interactive graph for this client showing revenue trends. Here's the conversation:
Boss: "Build this interactive graph for this client showing these revenue numbers"
Me: "It's done but FYI those revenue numbers are incorrect and should not be published to the client"
Boss: "It's ok that they are not accurate. Publish them anyway"
Me: "no problem! I'll get it done today"